1964-68 GREEK RUINS AND ANIMALS

While sailing again in Greece, Gilot is elated by the milky blue veil that covers the landscape at dawn. Meanwhile, The Tate Gallery finds Gilot an artist’s studio in London. The artist feels liberated in England, which she views as more irrational and eccentric; her own irrationality blooms. Gilot says, “It was as if all of a sudden the quintessential dwellers of Noah’s Ark had chosen my studio as a place in which to disembark.” Gilot juxtaposes the natural cycle of the animal world with the rise and fall of civilizations. Hawks dive towards lizards in a will to survive, while some pensive monkeys ponder on the meaning of existence. When the Mayor Gallery stops its activity, the Leicester Gallery signs her on.