Degas House

05/13/2026

With P!nk – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

05/10/2026

05/06/2026

12/01/2025

She was thirty one when she carried two suitcases, lifted her children into her car, and walked out of Picasso’s villa knowing he would never forgive her for choosing freedom.
Françoise Gilot had spent ten years inside the orbit of one of the most famous artists in the world. She met Picasso in 1943 when she was a young painter in occupied Paris. He was more than forty years older, already a legend, and already shaped by a long history of turbulent relationships. Many women before her had been pulled into his genius, then crushed by it.
But Gilot was different. She painted every day, even when Picasso dismissed her work. She raised their two children, Claude and Paloma. She absorbed the storms that came with life beside a man who believed he could control every person in his world.
In 1953, she decided he was wrong.
Picasso laughed when she left and told her no woman had ever walked away from him. Gilot did not return. Instead, she built a long and disciplined career under her own name. She exhibited internationally, developed a distinctive visual language, and published a memoir in 1964 that revealed the intensity and difficulty of life beside Picasso. He tried to block its publication in France. He failed.
Her life expanded far beyond the shadow he assumed she would never escape. In 1970 she married Jonas Salk, the scientist whose polio vaccine changed the world. She exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Pompidou. She lectured, wrote, painted, raised her family, and lived entirely on her own terms.
Françoise Gilot died in New York in 2023 at the age of 101, surrounded by her own canvases, her own legacy, and her own name.
Picasso once said no one leaves a man like him.
Françoise Gilot proved that some women do.
Story based on historical records.

11/30/2025

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11/30/2025

Did you know....we host holiday parties, company events, meetings and all sorts of important celebrations!

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11/20/2025

11/08/2025

Let the sparks fly! ✨✨

A la carte pricing as of Nov. 1st 2025 (subject to change in the future):
Venue only $3500-$5500
Dressing of the Bride $1500
Buyout 3 nights $8000
Buyout 2 nights $6500
Ceremony $1500

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