Dora Maar

Markovic, Dora

French, 1907 - 1997

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French photographer and painter (1907–1997)

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A nude woman shown from the chest up is painted entirely in tones of gray and black in this vertical portrait. Her face is turned slightly to our left, and she looks off in that direction under thin, dark brows. She has large, almond-shaped eyes, a long, straight nose, and her full lips are closed. A cloud of dark hair frames her oval face and brushes her shoulders. Her shoulders, upper arms, breasts, and nipples are simply outlined and lightly shaded, and the background is mottled with gray. The artist signed the top left corner, “Picasso.”
Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, 1941, oil on linen, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.193

Dora Maar

Pablo Picasso · 1941 · oil on linen ·  Accession ID  1963.10.193

Bibliography

1985

  • Krauss, Rosalind and Jane Livingston. L'amour fou; photography and surrealism. Exh. cat. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985.

1990

  • Freeman, Judi. Picasso and the Weeping Women: The Years of Marie-Thérèse Walter & Dora Maar. Exh. cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990: 174-197.

  • Sullivan, Constance, ed. Women Photographers. New York, 1990.

1993

  • Lord, James. Picasso and Dora, A Personal Memoir. New York, 1993: 133, 169.