New York City, La Jolla, and Paris. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Gilot designed costumes, stage sets, and masks for productions at the Guggenheim in New York City. She was awarded a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1990. In 1973, Gilot was appointed art director of the scholarly journal Virginia Woolf Quarterly. In 1976, she joined the board of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California, where she taught summer courses and took on organizational responsibilities until 1983. Gilot splits her time between New York and Paris, working on behalf of the Salk Institute, and continues to exhibit her work internationally. In 2010, Gilot was awarded the Officer of the Légion d'honneur, the French government’s highest honour the arts. In August 2018, Gilot released three sketchbooks, these documented the journey she went on in Venice, India and Senegal. In popular culture Gilot is played by Natascha McElhone in the 1996 film Surviving Picasso, and by Clémence Poésy in the 2018 season of Genius, which focuses on the life and art of Picasso. Books Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, Life with Picasso, McGraw-Hill, 1964; Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1989, Françoise Gilot, Le regard et son Masque, Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1975, – focuses on her development as an artist. Françoise Gilot, Interface: The Painter and the Mask, Press at California State University, Fresno, 1983 Barbara Haskell, Françoise Gilot: An Artist's Journey 1943–1987, California State Univ, 1987, ; Little, Brown, 1989. Françoise Gilot, Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art, Doubleday, 1990, ; New York: Anchor Books, 1992, Sources Françoise Gilot, Mel Yoakum, Françoise Gilot: monograph 1940–2000, Acatos, 2000, References External links Françoise Gilot: Studio visit, TateShots, 19 December 2013 "Picasso and Francoise Gilot: Paris-Vallauris, 1943–1953", Charlie Rose, 17 May 2012 "An hour with French painter Francoise Gilot", Charlie Rose, 13 February 1998 Françoise Gilot Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Francoise Gilot (1921–) Françoise Gilot on artnet French women painters French women writers 1921 births Living people French centenarians Women centenarians French artists' models People from Neuilly-sur-Seine Artists from San Diego Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite People educated at the University of London Institute in Paris Alumni of the University of Cambridge University of Paris alumni 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American women artists French memoirists French expatriates in the United States Muses Pablo Picasso French expatriates in the United Kingdom