Picasso Jewish lover Dora Maar

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Picasso and Dora Maar in 1936 at the beginning of their acquaintance.

Dora Maar was 27 when she met Picasso in Paris first Dora Maar was 27 when she met Picasso in Paris first. At that time he was a successful painter, famous and wealthy 55-year-old . She was a photographer from Argentina, of Jewish origin. The original name was Theodora Markovic. In the early years he asked her to take the pictures. Dora Maar was an educated woman, elegant, cool, serious and sophisticated. Picasso was fascinated by her, painted her portrait in dozens of pictures. At first, her pictures were realistic and reasonable, and later he painted her in a distorted, disjointed faced monstrosity. These pictures are called “weeping woman”. After 7 years, she underwent a nervous breakdown. She died in 1997 at age 88. The pictures are sold at astronomical world: forty million dollars a picture!

4 Portraits of Dora Maar Picasso's self portraits

Dora Maar in the paintings have threatening sharp long nails Dora Maar in the paintings have threatening sharp long nails. Sometimes nails look like sharp knives, and sometimes like claws of a predator. In this picture Dora Maar has one eye green and one red. Her right cheek is painted like a juicy apple to cook.

Here, too, nails similar to knives.

Dora Maar, in many pictures wears stylish and elegant hats.

1939

Series of pictures “weeping woman” Series of pictures “weeping woman”. Picasso painted Dora Maar with similar eyelashes brush.

Weeping woman 1937 And here is painted with almost no eyelashes

Image name: Dora Maar with a Cat. This picture was painted in 1941, she was sold in May 2006 at the astronomical price of $ 95,216,000! Not known who the buyer was. Image name: Dora Maar with a Cat.

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