Dora Maar

...but rather referring to a singular universal image of suffering. The model for the painting, indeed for the entire series, was Dora Maar, who was working as a professional photographer when Picasso met her in 1936; she was the only...

In this article: Pablo Picasso, The Weeping Woman, Guernica, Melbourne, Tate Gallery, Spanish Civil War, National Gallery of Victoria, London, and Australia

Dora Maar au Chat by Pablo Picasso Dora Maar au Chat (Dora Maar with Cat) is a 1941 painting by Pablo Picasso. It depicts Dora Maar, the painter's lover, seated on a chair with a small cat perched on her shoulders. This painting is one of...

In this article: Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar au Chat, Sotheby's, New York, Chicago, Second World War, Weeping Woman, Guernica, and Marc Chagall

...Degas's beloved images of ballerinas in repose ("Danseuses," a pastel on paper), a brightly colored wartime portrait of a woman (probably Dora Maar) by Picasso, and a painting by Pissarro, "Le Quai Malaquais et l'Institut," recently restituted...

In this article: Pablo Picasso, Matthew Diffee, Halloween, Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, New York University, Jacqueline Kennedy, David Wilson, and Boris Grigoriev

Dora Maar (November 22, 1907 - July 16, 1997) was a French photographer, poet and painter of Yugoslav descent, best known for being a lover and muse of Pablo Picasso. She was born Henriette Theodora Markovitch in Tours, Western France to...

In this article: Pablo Picasso, Paul Eluard, Paris, Dora Maar au Chat, FBI, Deux Magots, and James Lord

...sold and the Smiths took him up on two more proposals. Batson urged them to roll over the profits from that sale into Picasso's "Dora Maar. " He also said he was so impressed with how quickly the "Picasso Self-Portrait" had sold, he'd...

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James Lord, who has died aged 86, became a close friend of Pablo Picasso and the artist's discarded mistress, model and muse Dora Maar; he wrote a gossipy biography of the couple as well as several memoirs that vividly portrayed the artistic...

In this article: Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, James Lord, US Army, Paris, Second World War, and River Deep - Mountain High

..."Giacometti: A Biography,'' and "Picasso and Dora,'' a memoir dealing with the artist and his longtime mistress and muse Dora Maar. All of Mr. Lord's many encounters, it seemed, left an impression, which he turned into pithy vignettes,...

In this article: Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, Balthus, Paris, Wesleyan University, and Gertrude Stein

...artists and writers who gathered in Paris between the two World Wars. A quiet group of artists settled there, along with Dora Maar, Pablo Picasso's long-time model and mistress whose house is a five-minute walk from the museum. Eakin...

In this article: Goat, Peter Mayle, Bread, and Sausage

...Gen. Charles de Gaulle and the painter Joe Downing, who introduced her to Menerbes. A quiet group of artists settled there, along with Dora Maar, Pablo Picasso's longtime model and mistress whose house is a five-minute walk from the museum.

In this article: Peter Mayle and Goat

...of Art in Washington. The sculpture he created that year is 22 feet high, 45 feet long and 33 feet wide. Head of a Woman (The Reader Dora Maar), by Picasso That was the last time the public saw it. Until this week. "Smoke," an...

In this article: Heinz Berggruen, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Alberto Giacometti, Sotheby's, and London