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Accomplished French painter Françoise Gilot dies, aged 101

French artist Françoise Gilot, an accomplished painter in her own right, whose career was often reduced by the media to her early romantic relationship with Pablo Picasso, from which were born Claude and Paloma Picasso and which she left to successfully pursue her own vocation, has died at a Manhattan hospital at the age of 101.

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Françoise Gilot, an accomplished painter whose art was eclipsed by her long and stormy romantic relationship with a much older Pablo Picasso, and who alone among his many mistresses walked out on him, died on june 6th at a hospital in Manhattan, at the age of 101, reports The New York Times.

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