Pablo Picasso pintando el Guernica (París, 1937)
Pablo Picasso pintando el Guernica (París, 1937) , a photo by Recuerdos de Pandora on Flickr. Dora Maar photographically documented the making/painting of Picasso's Guernica.
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“Head of a Woman No. 5. Dora Maar” by Pablo Picasso (1939)
“Head of a Woman No. 5. Dora Maar” by Pablo Picasso (1939) , a photo by navema on Flickr.
Dora Maar: Picasso's "Weeping Woman"
Dora Maar (November 22, 1907 – July 16, 1997) was a French photographer , poet and painter , best known for being a lover and muse of Pablo Picasso . Life She was born Henriette Theodora Marković in Paris , France . Her father, Josip Marković, was a Croatian architect , famous for his work in South America ; her mother, Julie Voisin, was from a Catholic family from Touraine , France. [1] Dora grew up in Argentina . Before meeting Picasso, Maar was already known as a photographer. She also painted. She met Picasso in January 1936 on the terrace of the Café les Deux Magots in Saint-Germain-des-Prés , Paris , when she was 29 years old and he 54. The famous poet Paul Éluard , who was with Picasso, had to introduce them. Picasso was attracted by her beauty and self-mutilation (she cut her fingers and table playing " the knife game "; he got her bloody gloves and exhibited them on a shelf in his apartment). She spoke Spanish fluently, so Picasso was even more fas...