Claude Picasso

Claude Ruiz Picasso (born 15 May 1947) is a French photographer, cinematographer, movie director, visual artist, graphic designer, and businessman. He is a child of Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso[1] and the older brother of Paloma Picasso; by wish on Gilot's part, he was named after Claude Gillot, a pioneering French Rococo artist and mentor to fellow artist Jean-Antoine Watteau.[2] His name was Claude Gilot until age 12.[3] In 1968 he met Sara Lavner (Schultz), a young woman from Brooklyn. Sara and Claude married in 1969 and divorced in 1972.[4] He was a photographer in New York City when his father died. At the time, he had experienced a period of estrangement from his father due to his mother's memoir Life with Picasso. His father's legacy nevertheless proved important to him and he established the "Picasso Administration"[5] to look after copyright and other legal matters.

Claude Picasso
Born	Claude Pierre Pablo Picasso 15 May 1947 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Nationality	French, Spanish
Spouse(s)	Sara Lavner (m. 1969; div. 1972) Sydney Russel (m. 1979; div 2000)
Parent(s)	Pablo Picasso (father) Françoise Gilot (mother)
Relatives	Paloma Picasso (sister) Maya Widmaier-Picasso (half-sister) Jonas Salk (stepfather)

Claude lived in New York between 1967 and 1974. He was Richard Avedon's photographic assistant for almost a year, and studied cinema and mise-en-scène at the Actors Studio. He also worked as a photojournalist for Time Life, Vogue and Saturday Review.[6]

Awards

Claude Picasso has been decorated with the Legion d'Honneur in 2011 for his personal work as photographer, cinematographer, and visual artist, as well as his efforts to administer his father's heritage.

References

1. Picasso Museum to Reopen at Last, With New Leader by DOREEN CARVAJAL in the September 3, 2014 The New York Times
2. Gilot, Françoise; Lake, Carlton (1964). Life with Picasso. New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill. p. 160. OCLC 610027514 – via the Internet Archive.
3. Hawley, Janet (23 July 2011). "Pablo was the greatest love of my life ... I left before I was destroyed", Good Weekend, The Sydney Morning Herald, p. 19.
4. Lavner, Sara (2014). The Glitter Factory: The Making and Unmaking of Sara Picasso (A Memoir). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. pp. 27–95. ISBN 978-1499379457.
5. The Family Concern of Claude Picasso in The Australian
6. Speech of Frédéric Mitterrand, Minister of Culture, 2011

Picasso's Ghost create space, memoir by Carole Mallory with whom he lived at time of Picass's death