Françoise Gilot. Art Edition No. 121–180 ‘Music in Senegal’

Born in 1921 in Neuilly, France, Françoise Gilot was a painter, printmaker, and writer. She started showing her work in the 1940s as part of the Nouvelle École de Paris movement, before exhibiting at many international gallery and museum exhibitions. She received awards and honors, including the Ordre des Arts et Lettres, and was made an Officier de la Légion d’Honneur. Her poetry books and memoirs on 20th-century art include the best-selling Life with Picasso (1964) as well as Interface: The Painter and the Mask (1975) and Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art (1990). She lived and worked in New York, until her death in June 2023.

Hans Werner Holzwarth is a book designer and editor specializing in contemporary art and photography. His TASCHEN publications include the Collector’s Editions Jeff Koons , Christopher Wool , Albert Oehlen , Neo Rauch , Ai Weiwei , Beatriz Milhazes , Julian Schnabel , Georg Baselitz , Glenn Brown , the David Hockney SUMO A Bigger Book , as well as monographs such as the XXL-sized Jean-Michel Basquiat .

Thérèse Crémieux is an actress and dramatist who has played in films by Robert Altman, Claude Lelouch, Laurent Heynemann, and Jacques Demy as well as in French theater. She collaborated on her own solo pieces with writer Philippe Ferran and directors Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, John Pepper, and Robert Cantarella. Her first play, Scènes étrangères , was produced at the Comédie-Française, and since 2011 she has written and published a number of plays including L’Art de la séparation , which takes place in Munich in 1933, Superstition , Dernière séance , and Low Cost .