Graphics. Figure (Dora Maar), 1945. – Pariz, 16. srpnja 1997.) A love partner of Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar was depicted in a number of Picasso's paintings, including his Portrait of Dora Maar and Dora Maar au Chat. [9], Her first solo exhibition was held at the Galerie Vanderberg in Paris. In the majority of these paintings, Dora Maar was represented as a tortured, anguished woman. Picasso ironitzava sobre l'activitat fotogràfica de Dora. Tragic figurative works, such as the Portrait of Eluard, or Self-Portrait to The Child of 1946, translate, in dark tones, the pain of post-war years. Maar was introduced to Picasso a few days later by their mutual friend Paul Eluard at Cafe des Deux Magots. Portrait of Marie-Therese. Woman with a beret and plaid dress (Marie-Therese Walter) Woman sitting … ‘Portrait of Dora Maar’ was created in 1937 by Pablo Picasso in Surrealism style. The faceted planes of her body and richly layered surface of brushstrokes impart a monumental and sculptural quality to this dazzling portrait. In Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937, Dora Maar is represented majestically seated in an armchair, smiling and resting her head on a long-fingered hand. In the heart of darkness (1939-1945), If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso, Woman, Bird, Star (Homage to Pablo Picasso), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dora_Maar_au_Chat&oldid=996455405, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 26 December 2020, at 18:41. Dora Maar Au Chat presents the artist’s most mysterious and challenging mistress regally posed three-quarter length in a large wooden chair with a small black cat perched behind her in both an amusing and menacing attitude. Tête de femme (Dora Maar) é uma escultura em gesso, modelada em bronze, de Pablo Picasso. Not one is Dora Maar” [21], Her liaison with Picasso, who physically abused her and made her fight Marie-Therese Walter for his love,[22] ended in 1943, although they met again episodically until 1946. She was captivated by him, but they did not formally meet. After years of struggling with depression,[25] Dora Maar confined herself within her own memories. Dora prepares to battle, pour la France, in the guise of a 20th century Jeanne d'Arc. nusch Eluard. [11][12][13] The photograph represents the central character in a popular series of plays by Alfred Jarry called Ubu Roi. Kefer photographed and decorated Jean Epstein’s film ‘The Fall of the House of Usher.’ They worked together on commercial photographs and advertisements. [17], Dora Maar first saw Pablo Picasso at the end of 1935 when she was taking promotional shots on the set of the Jean Renoir film The Crime of Monsieur Lange. From Musée Picasso Paris, Pablo Picasso, Portrait de Dora Maar (Portrait of Dora Maar) (1937), Oil on canvas, 92 × 65 cm It is an oil on canvas painting measuring 128.3 cm x 95.3 cm and is signed by the artist on the lower left corner. Their relationship began when Picasso met Maar on the set of Jean Renoir’s film Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, where she was working as a movie photographer. The face is shown in a combined frontal and profile view, with a red eye and a green eye facing in different directions. Portrait of woman with a beret. Portrait of Dora Maar, 1943. Dora Maar, pseudonym för Henriette Theodora Markovitch, född 22 november 1907 i Tours, död 16 juli 1997 i Paris, var en fransk fotograf och konstnär.Hon var på 1930-talet uppmärksammad för sin fotokonst inom olika genrer, surrealism, socialrealism och reklam- och modefoto.Hon samarbetade och hade en relation med Pablo Picasso.. Biografi. Esta foi tão importante para Picasso que, consta, ajudou o artista a pintar Guernica.. O luminoso quadro foi pintado em 1941, no início da Segunda Guerra Mundial em França, … In 1932, she had an affair with the filmmaker Louis Chavance. Maar's hat is particularly significant, as it signifies her involvement in the Surrealist movement. Maar's earliest surviving photographs were taken in the early 1920s with a Rolleiflex camera while on a cargo ship going to the Cape Verde Islands. Picasso fell in love with the 29-year-old Maar at the age of 55 and the couple began living together. She was Picasso's principal model, and he often represented her in tears. [18] The story of their first encounter was told by the writer Jean-Paul Crespelle, "the young woman serious face, lit up by pale blue eyes which looked all the paler because of her thick eyebrows; a sensitive uneasy face, with light and shade passing alternately over it. Like Picasso, Maar was an artist, photographer and poet. She died on 16 July 1997, at 89 years old. Dora Maar au Chat (English: Dora Maar with Cat) is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. Dora did not appreciate Picasso's depiction of her in this way. Theodora Markovitch föddes 1907 i Tours i Frankrike. Maar assisted Picasso with his artwork, particularly during his creation of Guernica, which she documented with photographs. [20] Picasso was very inspired by the tragedies of the Spanish Civil War, and he thought of Dora Maar as a living depiction of the pain and suffering that people experienced during this time. Dora Maar with Cat is unquestionably one of Picasso's most extraordinary portrayals of the woman who for nearly a decade was his muse, model, and lover. Dora Maar photographed the successive stages of the creation of Guernica,[19] painted by Picasso in his studio in the rue des Grands-Augustins from May to June 1937; Picasso used these photographs in his creative process. While studying at the École des Beaux-Arts, Maar met fellow female surrealist Jacqueline Lamba. [27], Maar spent her last years in her apartment in Rue de Savoie, in the Left Bank of Paris. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Ela foi sepultada no Cemitério Russo de Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois , em Clamart . Jacqueline then began to frequent the cafe where she would eventually meet André Breton, whom she would later marry. (lower right) pencil on paper 14 7/8 x 20 1/8 in. November 1907 in Tours; 16. Dora Maar, a pseudonym she chose, took courses at the Central Union of Decorative Arts and the School of Photography. Like her medieval paragon, this latter-day Jeanne d’Arc suffered a trial and ordeal by fire—but narrowly survived. and I told her about cafe de la Place Blanche.' Their relationship was intensely passionate and tempestuous and she challenged Picasso both intellectually and artistically. She felt that art should represent the content of reality through links with intuitions or ideas, rather than visually reproduce the natural. The work was first shown at the Exposition Surréaliste d’objets at the Galerie Charles Ratton in Paris and at the International Surrealist Exhibition in London in 1936. Dora Maar hagué de pintar sobre els anys 50. Maar spent most of her childhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where her father worked on a number of projects. Paintings of the landscapes around her house in Ménerbes,[26] showed locations dominated by wind and clouds, strongly revealing the struggle of an artist with the ghosts of her past. Dora Maar still continued to be an abiding creative and intellectual influence in Picasso's life, particularly during the early war years. [6] She took pictures in his studio at the Grands Augustins and tracked the latter stages of his epic work, Guernica. Portrait of Gertrude Stein (French: Portrait de Gertrude Stein) is an oil on canvas painting of the American writer and art collector Gertrude Stein by Pablo Picasso, which was begun in 1905 and finished the following year.The painting is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. More from 1937. Picasso was drawn to Maar not only for her beauty, but also for her intellect and artistic nature. An accomplished photographer who was close to key members of the Surrealist circle, Maar appealed deeply to Picasso because of her arresting and wild beauty, engaging intellect, and commitment as an artist. She turned to the Catholic religion, met the painter Nicolas de Staël (who lived in the same village), and turned to abstract painting.[24]. They also worked a bit on fashion magazines. Find more prominent pieces of photo at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. Guernica. Maar had her first publication in the magazine Art et Métiers Graphiques in 1932. About her, Maar said, 'I was closely linked with Jacqueline. [4], At the beginning of 1930, she set up a photography studio on rue Campagne-Première (14th arrondissement of Paris) with Pierre Kéfer, photographer, and decorator for Jean Epstein's 1928 film, The Fall of the House of Usher. Dora Maar au Chat by Pablo Picasso has been described as one of the least hostile portraits of Maar, which seems to have been the norm, and this particular portrait has been depicted as one of Picasso’s most brilliant and provocative portraits of his weeping woman. ドラ・マール（Dora Maar、1907年 11月22日 - 1997年 7月16日）は、フランスの写真家、画家。 特にシュルレアリスムの写真家として活躍した。 1937年にパブロ・ピカソが制作した《泣く女》のモデルであり、この直前にピカソが《ゲルニカ》を制作したときには、1月近くにわたって制作過程を撮影した。 Thus, on 19 March 1944, she played the role of Fat Anguish in the reading, at the home of Michel Leiris, of Picasso' first play, Desire Caught by the Tail, led by Albert Camus. She was a lover and muse of Pablo Picasso. Dora Maar (født Henriette Theodora Markovitch 22. november 1907 i Paris - 16. juli 1997 i Paris) var en fransk fotograf og maler, der bedst er kendt for at være Picassos muse og elskerinde, men derudover også var en del af den surrealistiske bevægelse.. Biografi. Tête de femme (Dora Maar) is a plaster-modelled, bronze-cast sculpture by Pablo Picasso. Dora Maar abandoned photography for painting alongside leaving Picasso and his influence, or rather the crushing presence of the painter, who had imposed on her a cubistic style. Still life with mask. Dora Maar passou seus últimos anos em seu apartamento na Rue de Savoie, em Paris e faleceu em 16 de julho de 1997, aos 89 anos de idade. This theme is particularly noticeable in the way that the artist depicted Maar's long manicured fingernails, which in Picasso's portrait have been rendered as long talons. She also enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian[3] which had the advantage of offering the same instruction to women as to men. [4], When the workshop ceased its activities, Dora Maar left Paris, alone, for Barcelona and then London, where she photographed the effects of the economic depression following the Wall Street Crash of 1929 in the United States. When asked about his portraits of her, she said “all portraits of me are lies. It is considered one of the important works of Picasso's Rose Period. [2], In this painting, Picasso aims to depict not only Dora's beauty, but also her temperament. Brassai once said that she had “bright eyes and an attentive gaze, a disturbing stare at times”.[4]. Dora Maar blev født i Paris, men voksede op i Buenos Aires i Argentina, hvor hun boede med sin familie i årene 1910 til 1925. [7], "Pablo Picasso Portrait of Dora Maar Could Bring $50 Million at May 3 Sotheby's Auction", "PABLO PICASSO DORA MAAR AU CHAT Oil on canvas 1941", "Pablo Picasso DORA MAAR AU CHAT Estimate 50,000,000 — 70,000,000 USD", "Mystery Bidder Spends $95 Million on a Picasso", "Pablo Picasso Portrait of Dora Maar brings $95,216,000 at Sotheby's", "Bidzina Ivanishvili – a billionaire goes into politics", Picasso. [7], She met the photographer Brassaï with whom she shared the darkroom in the studio. Marie-Therese Walter. It was in the 1980s, though that the painter expressed herself fully in her many paintings of the Luberon region. Drawn on 2 March 1937 Provenance Dora Maar, Paris (gift from the artist); Estate sale, Piasa, Paris, 27 October 1998, lot 13. Maar’s Portrait de Picasso from 1936 shows her own talent coming to the fore (Credit: Courtesy Galerie Brame et Lorenceau) “When he met Dora Maar … [3], David Norman, Chairman of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Department Worldwide, summarised the importance of the composition.[2]. Dora Maar. Weeping Woman. In 1944, through the intermediary of Paul Éluard, Dora Maar met Jacques Lacan, who took care of her nervous breakdown by administering her electroshocks,[23] which were forbidden at the time. In the heart of darkness (1939-1945), If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso, Woman, Bird, Star (Homage to Pablo Picasso), "Edited extract on Picasso's muse Dora Maar", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dora_Maar&oldid=998569031, CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2020, Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers, Wikipedia articles with RKDartists identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 6 January 2021, at 00:30. See more ideas about Dora maar, Dora, Man ray. Pierre Colle of Paris acquired the painting by 1946. Portrait de Dora Maar 1937. Their liaison would last nearly nine years, during which time Picasso did not end his relationship with Marie-Thérèse Walter, mother of his daughter Maya. The canvas is one of many portraits of Dora Maar painted by Pablo Picasso over their nearly decade-long relationship. Picasso was intrigued by Dora's seductive and masochistic behaviour, which served as inspiration for many of his works throughout their relationship. As such, he painted many portraits of her. bila je francuska slikarica, fotograf i pjesnikinja, poznata Picassova muza, koju je portretirao na brojnim portretima tokom njihove burne ljubavne veze tokom 1930-ih.. Pored tog Dora Maar poznata je po brojnim foto portretima Pabla Picassa za vrijeme dok je on slikao svoju čuvenu Guernicu. [29] Her experiments with photograms and dark-room photography were only found posthumously. Sometimes she missed and a drop of blood appeared between the roses embroidered on her black gloves... Picasso would ask Dora to give him the gloves and would lock them up in the showcase he kept for his mementos."[4]. [2] A love partner of Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar was depicted in a number of Picasso's paintings, including his Portrait of Dora Maar and Dora Maar au Chat. [28] She was buried in the Bois-Tardieu cemetery in Clamart. Pushed by Picasso to express herself in this style, one can wonder about Picasso's desire to remove his lover from the domain where she excelled, and to constrain her in a style of painting which he had long mastered. [2], Picasso depicted Maar's portrait in the Cubist style. 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. During this time working in advertising and fashion photography, the influence of Surrealism could be seen in her work through her heavy use of mirrors and contrasting shadows [1]. [5][6] The identity of the bidder, who also purchased an 1883 Monet seascape and a 1978 Chagall, was a topic of much speculation. She kept driving a small pointed pen-knife between her fingers into the wood of the table. Portrait de femme (Dora Maar), 1943. An anonymous Russian bidder who was present at the auction won the work with a final bid of $95,216,000, well exceeding the pre-auction estimate of $50 million. She shared Picasso's political views and also spoke Spanish. The presence of the cat on her shoulder offers special significance, as it reflects the traditional pairing of cats and women in art that was used to suggest female cunning and sexual aggression. Her father was Croatian and became an architect; her mother was French and brought up in the Catholic faith. Picasso used a vibrant palette to depict Maar's clothing and gave particular attention to detail to the angles of the chair and the pattern on the dress. As Picasso's mistress and main model, Dora Maar was the artist's main source of inspiration and his artistic companion. [4], In the 1980s she made a number of photograms. It came up for sale in an auction held at Sotheby's on 3 May 2006 in New York, making it the second-highest price ever paid for a painting at auction at the time. She signed many manifestos, including one titled "When Surrealists were Right" in August 1935 which concerned the Congress of Paris, which had been held in March of that year. The painting is listed as one of the most expensive paintings, after achieving a price of $95 million at Sotheby's on 3 May 2006. The winning buyer is listed as Georgian businessman and billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili. She later met Brassai who was also a photographer. Henriette Theodora Markovitch (22 November 1907 – 16 July 1997), known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer, painter, and poet. [7] After the fascist demonstrations of 6 February 1934, in Paris along with René Lefeuvre, Jacques Soustelle, supported by Simone Weil and Georges Bataille, she signed the tract "Appeal to the Struggle" written at the initiative of André Breton. (37.7 x 51 cm.) In the studio, Maar and Kefer worked together mostly on commercial photography for advertisements and fashion magazines. The composition is a construction of shapes with vertically inclined planes that contrast with the lines of the wooden floor in the background. In 1930, she established a photo studio with Pierre Keferwho was a photographer. It is currently the sixth highest selling painting by Picasso. Aquesta no estava del tot satisfeta amb l'ensenyament a l'Acadèmia Lothe. [1], This painting was made during the year 1941, at the beginning of World War II. Much of her work is highly influenced by leftist politics of the time, often depicting those who had been thrown into poverty by the Depression. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Portrait de Dora Maar endormie dated 'le 2 mars 37.' ‘Double Portrait’ was created in 1930 by Dora Maar in Surrealism style. The painting is a rare, three-quarter length portrait of Maar, who is sitting in an armchair. 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