Claude Ruiz Picasso (born 15 May 1947) is a French photographer,

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, movie director, visual artist,

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, and businessman. He is a child of Françoise Gilot and

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

and the older brother of Paloma Picasso. By a wish on Gilot's part, he was named after Claude Gillot, a pioneering French Rococo artist and mentor to fellow artist

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. His name was Claude Gilot until age 12. In 1968 he met Sara Lavner (Schultz), a young woman from Brooklyn. Sara and Claude married in 1969 and divorced in 1972. 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" to look after copyright and other legal matters. Claude lived in

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between 1967 and 1974. He was

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's photographic assistant for almost a year, and studied cinema and

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at the

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. He also worked as a photojournalist for

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, ''

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Awards

Claude Picasso has been decorated with the

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in 2011 for his personal work as photographer, cinematographer, and visual artist, as well as his efforts to administer his father's heritage.

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Works cited

* French photographers French photojournalists 1947 births Living people French people of Spanish descent Recipients of the Legion of Honour 20th-century French male artists 21st-century French male artists Pablo Picasso {{France-photographer-stub