French painter Françoise Gilot, Picasso's partner and mother of Claude and Paloma, dies at 101. Gilot had arrived in Paris fleeing not only from a bourgeois family, but from an authoritarian father who wanted to see her become a lawyer.
For Gilot it was essential to work, paintings full of life and color, which Brassaï saw and which were becoming more powerful, as could be seen in the retrospective of the Gagosian gallery in 2012. It must not have been easy not to survive Picasso, but to continue with his own artistic project.