Artist Françoise Gilot, Who Loved and Left Picasso, Dies at 101

Artist Françoise Gilot, who loved and then jilted Pablo Picasso, died in a New York City hospital on Tuesday at the age of 101. Gilot wrote a 1964 memoir about her long romance with the father of modern art—with whom she had two children—that was made into a 1996 movie starring Natascha McElhone and Anthony Hopkins. Her own artwork hangs in the world’s great art museums, and she found love after leaving Picasso, marrying Jonas Salk, the creator of the polio vaccine.