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

The Weeping Woman by Picasso

Picasso and the Weeping Women featuring the artist’s late 1930s images of women going to oddly shaped pieces with grief, and terror is a great show.

The model for the painting was Dora Maar. The long, black hair, the dark, fringed eyes and the garish make-up identify this weeping woman as Dora Maar.

Although it is associated with Picasso’s portraits of Dora Maar, this painting is not a portrait per se and in fact some of its color harmonies – such as the violet yellow and red.

Picasso allegorically captures the suffering of war-torn Spain in the agony depicted in Maar’s face.
The Weeping Woman by Picasso