Celebrated artist and Picasso muse Françoise Gilot dies at 101.

Françoise Gilot, a celebrated artist, writer, and muse to Pablo Picasso, has died at the age of 101. Gilot achieved a distinguished career as a painter, with her work shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Centre Pompidou in Paris. She also published graceful, incisive memoirs and poetry collections, even as she spent decades battling with those who sought to define her by the men in her life, including Picasso, her friend Henri Matisse, and her second husband, American virologist Jonas Salk, who helped eradicate polio.