Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot, Golfe-Juan, 1948
with copyright credit stamp 'Life photo by Robert Capa', printed title and date on label affixed to the verso
gelatin silver print
21 x 15.3cm (8 1/4 x 6in).

Footnotes

Literature
Robert Capa Photographs, Aperture, 1996, front cover and p. 150.

Taken in 1948 by renowned photographer and friend of Picasso, Robert
Capa, the above image captures the artist and his then lover Françoise
Gilot walking carefree along a beach in Golfe Juan, a seaside resort on
Côte d'Azur. The couple had met in 1943 when Françoise was just 21.
An aspiring watercolour painter and art critic herself, Françoise would
become a new creative power in Picasso's life.

Their relationship, as with all of Picasso's relationships, was impassioned
but tempestuous. The couple had two children, Claude and Paloma,
and for a time lived happily together in the South of France. Yet
throughout their relationship Picasso remained married to his wife, Olga
Khokhlova, and whilst promising to look after Françoise's children, he
never married her. By 1953, and after 10 years together, the reality
of Picasso's past lovers caught up with Françoise. She left Picasso,
allegedly the only woman in his life to do so and much to the artist's fury.
This aside, the above photograph captures a snapshot of the couple on
a very happy and untroubled day at the beach, back in 1948.

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