Exclusive | This $4.3M NYC home belonged to a painter and Picasso muse and stands in the citys most prominent artists building

Françoise Gilot — the brilliant French artist loved by Pablo Picasso and Jonas Salk — loved this apartment.And, indeed, home is where the art is.The late Gilot’s lofty duplex in the heart of the West 67th Street’s historic artists’ district just hit the market for $4.3 million, according to StreetEasy.

Gilot, known internationally for her watercolors, ceramics and the bestselling memoir “Life with Picasso,” used the loft-like co-op home as a live-in studio for decades. In addition to striking French Modernist art, including works like “Adam Forcing Eve to Eat an Apple” and the mythological “Labyrinth Series,” Gilot was known for her impressive romantic relationships. Gilot first met Picasso when she was a 21-year-old artist living in German-occupied France.Picasso was 61 at the time.

The dynamic pair spent almost 10 years together and shared two children. Gilot recounted this time in her 1964 best seller “Life with Picasso.” The acclaimed book was loosely adapted in the 1996 James Ivory film “Surviving Picasso,” featuring Anthony Hopkins.Gilot went on to marry Jonas Salk, the pioneer of the polio vaccine, and settled in New York City until her death at 101 years old in 2023.This listing marks the first time Gilot’s three-bedroom residence on West 67th Street has hit the market.

It’s being sold by her estate.The home features soaring, and striking-looking, barrel-vaulted ceilings over 17 feet high, a woodburning fireplace, oversized north-facing windows and a flexible three- to four-bedroom layout.Gilot’s duplex is just one of three units up for sale in the building. The second property, a $2.5 million two-bedroom, was also owned by Gilot.

She used it as a guest apartment and a pied-à-terre, said Christie’s International’s Leslie Hirsch, who holds the two listings alongside Howard L.Morrel. The third unit is the recently in-contract home of the late Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary fame.

Yarrow’s fifth-floor ...