Pablo Picasso’s muse has died at the age of 101

They met in 1943 in Paris. In 1946, the couple began to live together, later they had two children – Claude and Paloma Picasso.

French artist, memoirist, model and former lover of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso Françoise Giglio has died at the age of 101 in a Manhattan hospital. The death was confirmed by her daughter, Orelia Engel, who said her mother had recently suffered from heart and lung ailments, according to the New York Times.

Giglio met 62-year-old Pablo Picasso in France in 1943. Four years later, Giglio gave birth to a son, Claude, from Picasso, and two years later, a daughter, dove However, Picasso never married her, and the couple divorced in 1953.

However, her relationship with Picasso brought her into the public eye, especially after the publication of her memoirs, Life from Picasso.

The book became an international bestseller and angered the artist so much that he tried to ban their publication through the courts, but lost. In his memoirs, the artist spoke about the many betrayals of the artist and his complex character.

After an affair with Picasso, the artist married twice. In 1956, she gave birth to a daughter, Orelia, with artist Luc Simon.

In 1970, she married Jonas Salk, an American medical researcher who developed the first safe polio vaccine.

After the death of Pablo Picasso in 1973, his illegitimate children sued for the distribution of the artist’s fortune, which was estimated at $ 250 million. Paloma received 90 million, of which she gave most of the construction of the Picasso Museum in Paris.

Earlier it was reported that the Sotheby’s auction was held in the United States, where 11 works of the famous French artist and founder of cubism Picasso were sold for a record amount.

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