Robert Capa. Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot, Golfe-Juan, France

Robert Capa. Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot, Golfe-Juan, France

This photograph, taken by the Spanish Civil War photographer, Robert Capa, in August 1948, shows the artist Pablo Picasso at the beach with Françoise Gilot, one woman in a long series of lovers. Picasso looked to the women in his life for artistic inspiration, developing a series of intense affairs and marriages that arguably shaped the trajectory of his career. This photograph, showing Picasso on a beautiful sunny day following behind Françoise Gilot as she strides ahead, captures an essential element of Picasso’s love of women. Drawing on the stereotype of women as peaceful and separate from the war effort, he used images of women in his painting Guernica to represent the civilian casualties of aerial bombardment during the Spanish Civil War.

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August 1948

Miranda Bucky

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