FRANCOISE GILOT: Three Travel Sketchbooks

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French artist Françoise Gilot, born in 1921, can look back on a long history. This beautiful fold-out box set presents a hardback facsimile edition of three sketchbooks made on Gilot's travels between 1974 and 1981. Collecting direct impressions and abstract reflections. Gilot travels to Venice in the summer of 1974. Her sketchbook drawings (a book measuring 6¾" x 10") are made with a subtle palette, centered on different shades of a watery blue. Views of the city are mixed with reimaginations of the canals and cityscape, yet it is above all the spirit, history, and myth of Venice that animates her work. Her handwritten commentary uses shape and colour and graphics. She also pays tribute to its art with various pages characterising her forebears: the Bellinis, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Veronese, Titian, Tintoretto. Gilot mixes writing with the illustrations, her beautifully organic lettering becoming part of the drawings in which she depicts the canals, the cafés, the lovers at the water's edge. The second smaller sketchbook (3¼" x 4½") is from Gilot's trip to India in late 1979. She fills it with drawings while out on the streets and sitting on bumpy plane rides between cities. The sketches, mostly in black and white, capture people on the road, market stalls, cows and other animals, and wall advertisements for the coming election. Central to the sketchbook are the figures of women, working or carrying a load, always clad in impeccable saris whose folds especially attract the artist. In 1981 Gilot visits Senegal, where she is impressed by the people she encounters, their movements and meetings, life in the circle huts and on marketplaces. Her sketchbook is almost jewel-like in its colourful intensity, juxtaposed with deep-inked line drawings and bold geometric forms. Women in flowing garments, plants and landscapes, sometimes clear and sometimes as form, moving in and out of abstraction. The three sketchbooks are accompanied by an additional large softback booklet (10" x 14" with tipped-in colour illus.) containing an introduction by Hans Werner Holzwarth, a conversation between Gilot and Thérèse Crémieux on the artist's work and travels, and translations of the handwritten text within the drawings. Limited and numbered edition of 5,000 copies. Three hardcover books plus supplementary booklet in a clothbound box, 26 x 36cm (10½" x 14") with another tipped-in colour illus on cover, 364 pages. Text in English, French and German. New from Taschen.

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