Dora Maar
They met in 1936 in Les Deux Magots where Picasso tended to go after his evening walk. He had dinner with his friend, poet Paul Eluard, while Elf – Picasso’s dog – was cadging at near-by tables. Dora’s and Pablo’s eyes met. Impressed he mumbled a few words in Spanish – the language Dora knew perfectly, since she had spent her childhood in Argentine. They fell into talk, and Picasso moved to her table.
Many years later Picasso told that Dora was wearing black gloves embroidered with rose flowers that evening. She entertained herself stabbing spots between fingers of her left hand lying on the table with a knife. At one point she slipped a fraction of an inch. Picasso asked Dora to give him her blooded gloves. All his life he kept them in a special shadow box.
Dora Maar was a nervous and troubled creature who made it into Picasso’s art as
“the weeping woman”. With the image of Maar Picasso made a kind of retrospective journey across his artwork: she was represented in all styles and manners of painting the artist had tried before. However even Picasso himself noted that he could never paint her smiling. The most typical feature of Dora’s portraits are large and deep eyes full of tears, or anxiety, or grief, or just dreamy.
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12 recent comments
16 July robert from seattle wrote:
'This picture is clever and innovative and has great hidden value. Importantly is the fact that the face of the portrait is not as important as way it is painted. Clearly we need to discover more about what the color red means to Picasso.'
22 June William from seattle wrote:
'I saw this in person in 1992. What is not mention here is that the painting somehow gives a slightly different sense of perspective as an observer moves in relation to the painting. It is delightfully uncanny.'
08 June Maria from seattle wrote:
'There is such an incredible difference between his work in 1892 and the previous year. It is hard to believe this work is from the same artist.'
27 January Eduardo from seattle wrote:
'In which museum can you find this painting?
Portrait d`homme [Bibi-la-puree]'
22 January Andrew from Kiko & Lola's House wrote:
'so dreamlike, but i cannot tell whether it's because the work is supposed to be abstract, or whether it's because the resolution is terrible. a beautiful painting, nonetheless.'
28 November Yoshitha from Kiko & Lola's House wrote:
'This drawing is the source of fantasy to be created in my head. The use of shapes makes this drawing unique. I like this drawing'
12 November admin from Kiko & Lola's House wrote:
'to #35. Harry: fixed it. thank you!'
11 November Harry from Kiko & Lola's House wrote:
'Hi...I hate to be a buzzkill but...This is one of Picasso' greatest drawings (no surprise that it graces the cover of a standard catalogue from the Musee Picasso in Paris) but this is literally the worst reproduction of it I've ever seen (insert facepalm). I have a high res version where the 'color' is accurate (not the murky gray-green of yours). I'm never sure if for profit sites like yours just don't get it or just don't care. I'm surprised Picasso's heirs haven't come down on you. I ran a fairly high profile non-profit art history site long ago; they harassed me....Apologies for raining on your parade, but you can and should do better. These ubelievably poor digital images do a disservice both to the art and the artist.'
22 September Alex Knight from Australia wrote:
'I love this painting. I just sent a copy of it to my children. I wish I had seen it when I was young.
This is the same man who painted the Guernic. Which I did see when I was young.'
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![Pablo Picasso. Woman with arms leves [Head of Dora Maar], 1936](images/works/1863_s.jpg "Pablo Picasso. Woman with arms leves [Head of Dora Maar], 1936")
