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Françoise Gilot

1921 - 2023

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Françoise Gaime Gilot (26 November 1921 – 6 June 2023) was a French painter. Gilot was an internationally known artist working largely in watercolors and ceramics as well as a bestselling memoirist of the book Life with Picasso. Gilot's artwork is showcased in more than a dozen leading museums including the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2021 her painting Paloma à la Guitare, a 1965 portrait of her daughter, sold for $1.3 million at Sotheby's in London. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Françoise Gilot is the 543rd most popular painter (down from 440th in 2019), the 1,631st most popular biography from France (down from 1,356th in 2019) and the 107th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Françoise Gilot ranks 543 out of 2,023. Before her are Andrea Solari, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Joachim von Sandrart, Bernard Buffet, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, and Giuseppe Crespi. After her are Clara Peeters, Andreas Achenbach, Émile Friant, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Françoise Gilot ranks 98. Before her are Herschel Grynszpan, Mario Lanza, Chris Marker, Yuri Nikulin, Paul Schäfer, and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld. After her are Dirk Bogarde, Raymond Goethals, Herta Bothe, Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Maurice Richard, and Betty Friedan. Among people deceased in 2023, Françoise Gilot ranks 91. Before her are Francis Lee, Ahmed Qurei, Karel Schwarzenberg, John B. Goodenough, Viktor Belenko, and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. After her are Jan Jongbloed, Gianni Vattimo, Elliott Erwitt, Federico Bahamontes, Josephine Chaplin, and Piper Laurie.

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In France

Among people born in France, Françoise Gilot ranks 1,631 out of 6,770. Before her are Jean Alesi (1964), Alberic of Cîteaux (1001), Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois (1819), Louis of Toulouse (1274), Robert Guérin (1876), and René Grousset (1885). After her are Louise Labé (1524), Alain Cuny (1908), Joan I, Countess of Auvergne (1326), Michel Bouquet (1925), Lucien Petit-Breton (1882), and Philippe Soupault (1897).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Françoise Gilot ranks 107. Before her are Jean Clouet (1480), Nicolas de Largillière (1656), André Lhote (1885), Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754), Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807), and Bernard Buffet (1928). After her are Émile Friant (1863), Paloma Picasso (1949), Pierre Puget (1620), Jules Dupré (1811), Charles-André van Loo (1705), and Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848).

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