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Henriette Theodora Markovitch (22 November 1907 – 16 July 1997), known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer, painter, and poet. Maar was both a pioneering Surrealist artist and an antifascist activist.
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- Still Life with Fruit, ca. 1960. Rosenberg & Co. Price on Request.
- Savoie Cat (Chat Savoie) II, 1935. Huxley-Parlour. Sold.
- Walker on Quai de la Seine, Paris,... , 1935. Huxley-Parlour. Sold.
- Compositions (Ruban, disque et persil) I , ca. 1980. LEVY Galerie. Price on Request.
Picasso’s Head of a Woman No. 1, Portrait of Dora Maar, from 1939, depicts Maar with large, melancholy eyes and pursed lips, her lustrous black hair rendered in layers of azure, crimson, and mustard.
Portrait of Dora Maar (French: Portrait de Dora Maar) is a 1937 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. It depicts Dora Maar, (original name Henriette Theodora Markovitch), the painter's lover, seated on a chair.
Wrapped within the monumental shadow that was Picasso, Dora Maar has long been – reductively – known as his lover and inspiring muse. She was made famous as "The Weeping Woman", the subject of a...
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Picasso painted this portrait of Surrealist photographer Dora Maar (1907–1997), then his lover, during their yearlong sojourn at Royan, a small town on France’s southern Atlantic coast, from which they witnessed the outbreak of World War II. Her face and body have been radically distorted.