Each Book Club meeting begins with refreshments, including a themed snack and various alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, and follows up with a discussion of literature and art.
The Museum Book Club will feature a guided discussion of Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake in the exhibition galleries at OKCMOA on September 19 from 5:30 pm-7 pm.
Title: Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake
“Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a friendship, a love affair, and a relationship of ten years, during which Gilot gave birth to Picasso’s two children, Paloma and Claude. Gilot was one of Picasso’s muses; she was also very much her own woman, determined to make herself into the remarkable painter she did indeed become.”
