Françoise Gilot was a young painter in Paris when she first met Picasso—he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. Over the course of the next ten years, they became lovers, collaborated closely, and had two children, Claude and Paloma. Her life with Picasso, the narrative of those extraordinary years, is filled with intimate and surprising revelations about the man, his work, his thoughts, and his friends—Matisse, Braque, Gertrude Stein, and Giacometti, among others. Françoise Gilot captures a fascinating portrait of her tumultuous life with the genius Picasso. It is an exceptional testimony to Picasso as an artist and his views on art.