Sylvette DavidIn 1954 in Vallauris, France, a beautiful young woman named SYLVETTE DAVID befriended the century's greatest artist. She soon became the subject of over a hundred of Picasso's drawings, paintings, and sculptures (one towering thirty-six-feet high). Ater this life-changing encounter, Sylvette devoted her life to painting. In 2017 she published I Was Sylvette, a memoir co-authored with her daughter, the sculptor Isabel Coulton. Sylvette's latest series of watercolors, commissioned for this book, portray a blind art collector, Leon Angely, and his precocious guide, Josephine, who unwittingly inspired Picasso's greatest engraving. Read More Read Less