Picasso and Francoise Gilot

 Silhouettes were following me yesterday.

I fell into the Picasso and Francoise Gilot:Paris - Vallauris, 1943-1953 exhibit at Gagosian Gallery 980 Madison Ave.

 A big collection of gorgeous old photos, paintings, drawings, prints by both Picasso and Gilot.

 Gilot was just 21 at the time she met Picasso

 What a beauty as well as an accomplished artist.
Gilot on Charlie Rose.

 It's easy to see how she captivated Picasso.

 Her balanced classic features are perfection.

 Perfect to distort as well.

 Many, many multiple portraits of Gilot in the show.

 Two big floors of artwork.

 Some of the photos of Gilot by Edwin Quinn are so arresting. Quinn lived and worked as a photographer from the 1950s, on the Côte d'Azur, during the "golden fifties" the playground of the celebrities from the world of show biz, art and business.

 Don't you love to see artists at work? Read Gillot's Life with Picasso for her view of it all.

 I was on the upper East Side to see a preview of Elsworth Kelly early plant drawings at the Met. These are like silhouettes as well - positive/negative beautiful shapes.

 It's easy to see how these early 60's drawings led to his later more abstract shapes.

 Kelly is a master shape-maker.

If you love drawings don't miss this.

It opens today.

 Back to the Picasso-Gilot exhibit. Many of the paintings-drawings are of children, my current obsession probably thanks to Bringing Up Bebe, I am now painting up les bebes.

 I loved this drawing Francoise Gilot's made of her son, Claude sleeping curled up on a table.

 It made me feel bold enough to put up my drawing of Lillie.

I'll need to paint a lot of bebes if I am to move to France..

Let me know if you're interested.

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Baby Portraits

 Today's post was supposed to be on STAPLERS not strawberry tartes but c'est la vie. A stabler is an ESSENTIAL to bring to Paris but no one bothers to tell you. I ordered this petite pink beauty from Amazon.

  When I saw the French word for stapler (agrafeuse) in Baldwin's I Love Paris But bla bla on page 60 I was thrilled.

"I'd also learned the French word for "stapler" - agrafeuse- because Olivier hadn't understood me when I'd asked to borrow "la stapler," so he taught me its gorgeous name, which sounded to me like an expensive motorcycle."

 Wherever and whenever you use your credit card in Paris they give you a bunch of receipts (resu/ticket).

If you don't carry your own stapler or know how to ask them kindly SVP to staple the damn%$#@ things together, you'll end up with your bag full of paper end of day.

"and when I couldn't remember agrafeuse, I'd mimic clenching my hand, as if squeezing a stapler, or a hand exerciser. Which confused Olivier. The first time it happened, he pulled out a hand exerciser from his bottom-left drawer and told me to keep it."

 This happened more times than I like to admit.

When people would say, 'Oh you mean une agrafeuse'

I hadn't a clue how to spell it or pronounce it.

This is why you need that notebook to write new words down along with your own stapler.

 What I bought at Fauchon.

 These macarons are all gone now.

 I should have bought Fauchon's adorable 3-4-5 minute timer (15 euros) to cut back on time spent reading emails.c'est comme ca.

 I write in my notebook dishes I like and sometimes how to pronounce them. Wait staff will usually help you with this.

 You may have noticed the bebe sketches in my notebook.

 Parisian Alex asked me to draw her darling bebe Julietta for a christening announcement.

 Rather brave since I mostly draw cats and dogs.

I'm pleased to announce I'd love to paint your baby!
Please contact me for more info. Meanwhile I'll be sketching babies like mad on the metro.

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