[HIGHLIGHTS] The painter Françoise Gilot, ex-companion of Picasso, died at 101 years old

Francois Gilot was the companion of Pablo Picasso from 1946 to 1953. She was an artist in her own right for more than 60 years.

One of her paintings, "Paloma à la Guitare" (1965), sold for $1.3 million at auction at Sotheby's. She portrays Picasso as a tyrannical, superstitious and selfish being in her book "Living with Picasso" She was the link between the Paris School of the 1950s and the American scene.