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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 accomplished artist, notably in watercolors and ceramics, and 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Françoise Gilot has received more than 2,260,787 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Françoise Gilot is the 440th most popular painter (up from 509th in 2019), the 1,356th most popular biography from France (up from 1,569th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Françoise Gilot ranks 440 out of 2,023. Before her are Catharina van Hemessen, Erich Heckel, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, José Clemente Orozco, Salaì, and Cennino Cennini. After her are Christian Krohg, Michael Ancher, Jan Lievens, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Louise Moillon, and Johan Christian Dahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Françoise Gilot ranks 71. Before her are Miklós Jancsó, Farida of Egypt, Paul Watzlawick, Gérard Debreu, Karel Appel, and Amin al-Hafiz. After her are Thomas Schelling, Jack Steinberger, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Lydia Litvyak, Paul Schäfer, and Geoffrey Wilkinson. Among people deceased in 2023, Françoise Gilot ranks 92. Before her are Henri Konan Bédié, Antonella Lualdi, Frank Borman, Viktor Belenko, Gianni Vattimo, and Thomas Williams. After her are Luis Garavito, Dariush Mehrjui, Ruud Geels, Dmitry Utkin, Matteo Messina Denaro, and Shane MacGowan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Françoise Gilot ranks 1,356 out of 6,770. Before her are André Michelin (1853), Louis III of Anjou (1403), Richardis (840), Georges Prêtre (1924), Sebastian Castellio (1515), and Henri Désiré Landru (1869). After her are Gabriel Lamé (1795), Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (1435), Louis, Prince of Condé (1530), Pierre de Marivaux (1688), Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517), and Claude Lanzmann (1925).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Françoise Gilot ranks 93. Before her are André Masson (1896), Eva Gonzalès (1849), Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827), Bernard Buffet (1928), Yves Tanguy (1900), and Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754). After her are Louise Moillon (1610), Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774), Ernest Meissonier (1815), James Tissot (1836), Pierre Puget (1620), and Louise Abbéma (1853).

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