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Dora Maar au Chat (English: Dora Maar with Cat) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. It was painted in 1941 and depicts Dora Maar (original name Henriette Theodora Markovitch), the artist's lover, seated on a chair with a small cat perched on her shoulders.
Portrait of Dora Maar (French: Portrait de Dora Maar) is a 1937 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. It depicts Dora Maar, (original name Henriette Theodora Markovitch), the painter's lover, seated on a chair. It is part of the collection of the Musée Picasso, in Paris, where it is considered to be one of Picasso's masterpieces.
Portrait of Dora Maar, by Pablo Picasso In 1910, the family left for Buenos Aires where the father obtained several commissions including for the embassy of Austria-Hungary. His achievements earned him the honor of being decorated by Emperor Francis Joseph I , even though he was "the only architect who did not make a fortune in Buenos Aires".
Picasso met Dora Maar in the winter of 1935. The poet Paul Éluard introduced Picasso to Maar while she was working as a photographer on Jean Renoir's film Le Crime de Monsieur Lange. [11] Although he was 26 years older than Maar, they were drawn together by a shared connection of art and politics.
It is widely thought that Surrealist photographer and anti-fascist activist Dora Maar, Picasso's romantic partner at the time, had a significant influence on the style and politicized theme of Guernica. [6] Unlike Picasso, Maar was deeply involved in left-wing political activism when they met.
Portrait photograph of Pablo Picasso, 1908. Picasso first met 17-year-old Walter on the street outside Galeries Lafayette in 1927. She was a respectable girl who lived with her mother and sisters in Maisons-Alfort, a suburb of Paris. [6] At the time, Picasso was aged 47 and unhappily married to Olga Khoklova, a Russian ballerina. Picasso ...
Lists of Picasso artworks include: List of Picasso artworks 1889–1900; List of Picasso artworks 1901–1910; List of Picasso artworks 1911–1920; List of Picasso artworks 1921–1930; List of Picasso artworks 1931–1940; List of Picasso artworks 1941–1950; List of Picasso artworks 1951–1960; List of Picasso artworks 1961–1970
Woman's Head (1939). Woman's Head is a 1939 oil-on-canvas painting by Pablo Picasso.It is a depiction of Dora Maar, Picasso's companion at the time.Picasso donated the work to the people of Greece in recognition of their resistance against the Axis during the Second World War.