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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".
Pablo Picasso, 1905, Garçon à la pipe, (Boy with a Pipe), private collection, Rose Period. Several paintings by Picasso rank among the most expensive paintings in the world. Garçon à la pipe sold for US$104 million at Sotheby's on 4 May 2004. Dora Maar au Chat sold for US$95.2 million at Sotheby's on 3 May 2006. [132]
This is a list of some works by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, from 1941 on to 1950. 1941 Dora Maar au Chat; 1941 Tete de femme (Dora Maar) (in plaster) 1941 Nature Morte; 1942 Nature morte à la Guitare; 1942 Bull's Head; 1943 Buste de femme 43; 1943 Mujer con sombrero [1] 1944 Plant de Tomato
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.
A man discovered an old painting in his home that turned out to be a Picasso worth roughly $6.6 million (£5 million) -- and his wife hated it.
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.