Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937 by Pablo Picasso

Dora Maar was the model for Picasso’s Weeping Woman. In 1937, Picasso had just fallen in love with Odra be still seeing another mistress (Marie- Therese-Walter).

Dora Maar, was Yugoslav, had lives many years with her parents in Argentina. She was a photographer who he invited to his studio to photograph his new painting Guernica. They soon became a lover.

Picasso offered multiple views in portraiture. In the painting of his mistress and muse Dora Maar, facial features are simultaneously depicted in profile and in frontal view.

Some art critics believe these paintings represent both frontal and profile views equally; others believe they represent a profile view primarily with some degree of frontality.
Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937 by Pablo Picasso

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