*Françoise GILOT (born in 1921) "Model scrubbing her leg (hammam scene)". Pastel signed lower right and dedicated: "For Paula". 1956. Height : 75,5 cm 75,5 cm - Width : 56 cm This work is referenced in the Françoise Gilot archives under the number G1410. Expert : M. Irénée Brun - Cabinet BRUN - Perazzone -brun.perazzone@gmail.com - 01 42 60 45 45 Françoise Gilot was born on November 26, 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. This centenarian artist began her career in the wake of Picasso's cubism, whose life she shared for nearly ten years from 1942, and frequented the group of friends, including Georges Braque and André Malraux. Her style then became more personal and her work reflected various influences, such as the works of Matisse, whose balanced lines left a lasting impression on her. Her paintings are essentially oriented towards the representation of the domestic universe by opting for rather cold colors, even if some tend towards abstraction. She painted a lot from nature and placed family life at the heart of her work, especially children's games. During the war, she bought old canvases at the flea market on which she painted on the reverse side, so much so that some collectors attributed these works to her for a time. She enjoyed experimenting with different techniques, oil on canvas, gouache and lithography. Her eclectic career is also marked by her meeting with Line Vautrin for whom she makes ceramic buttons, a discipline she inherited from her mother, a ceramist and watercolorist. To make her work known, she travels regularly to the United States from the 1960s onwards and exhibits her work there, both in New York and in most other states. Her works then took on a new dimension, the more present and saturated color offered a lyricism and a new poetry to more structured compositions. The themes and series diversified with his travels, from Californian landscapes to Venetian canals, passing by Indian and Senegalese women. The artist expresses on canvas his own sensitivity with grace and elegance, while retaining his cubist and fauvist influences. Painting sold under a protection mandate.