Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973)
This is the french edition of the catalogue relating to the exhibition Picasso Dora Maar.
Dora Maar, Picasso's mistress and friend from 1935 to 1945, recorded the story of this tragic period in numerous photo reportages. She was a committed artist and a member of the ...
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Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973)
This is the french edition of the catalogue relating to the exhibition Picasso Dora Maar.
Dora Maar, Picasso's mistress and friend from 1935 to 1945, recorded the story of this tragic period in numerous photo reportages. She was a committed artist and a member of the Surrealist group, but she was also the model and inspiration for a large number of portraits or weeping or imploring women, women sitting in chairs or wearing hats, chimaeras, female sphinxes and mythological creatures who people Picasso's oeuvre.
This creative dialogue between the painter and the photographer "who was inclined to rages and outbursts" serves as a chronological and thematic guide within the exhibition, shedding light both on the plastic revolutions in Picasso's art and on the major events that scarred the early years of the century. Fresh information contributed by the recent inventory of the works, photographs and records kept by Dora Maar, which entered the national collections in 1998 with the Markovitch payment in kind and sales of the Picasso Succession, should lead to a decisive revision of the approach taken to this period.
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