Françoise Gilot Studio Visit: A life with Passion | Christie's

Gilot made her name as one of the leading lights of the School of Paris, which flourished in the French capital after the Second World War. She has spent most of her career in the US, though, where she moved in 1970. (She currently occupies an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, which doubles as a studio in which she still paints almost every day.) To mark her 100th birthday, Christie’s is staging a solo exhibition at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, featuring more than 30 works from across Gilot’s career (11 of them for private sale).