Gilot, Françoise

Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art

      Doubleday 1990 - SIGNED by Françoise Gilot -- 1st Edition 1st Printing -- FINE/FINE -- copy of Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art. Small 4to. 339 pp. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author in black marker on the half-title. Quarter-bound in burgundy cloth over maroon boards, with pink endpapers and bright gilt lettering to the spine. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs and 8 pages of color plates. An as-new copy in a very fine metallic pink pictorial dustwrapper that retains the publisher's price of $30.00 in the upper right of the front flap. "Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse were acknowledged geniuses whose lives spanned the most explosive period of art in the twentieth century. In this intimate and moving volume, Françoise Gilot tells the story of their rare artistic and personal friendship as she herself witnessed it. Picasso's companion from 1946 to 1954, Gilot was in a rare position to observe the affection, rivalry, and creative interaction between the two men, and draws on her unique experience to portray them as they have never been seen before." WHS Published by: Doubleday, 1990 [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]