Dora Maar
If I were to ask you who the world’s most famous modern artist is, chances are that you would answer Pablo Picasso. But if I were to ask you who was the mastermind behind Picasso’s most revered works
how many of you would know her name?
Listen to ArtMuse’s episode on Dora Maar. Known as the woman with a thousand faces, Picasso painted Dora Maar countless times, most famously as his Weeping Woman. What is lesser known is that many of Picasso’s greatest works, like Guernica, would have never existed without Dora’s creative genius.
Dora Maar was a Surrealist photographer and painter in her own right, whose story in its entirety deserves to be shared with the world.
It's time for Picasso's Weeping Woman to have the last laugh.
This episode is produced by Kula Production Company.
Listen to ArtMuse’s episode on Dora Maar
REFERENCES
Amao, Damarice, and Dawn Ades. Dora Maar. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019.
Benkemoun, Brigitte, and Jody Gladding. Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life. Getty Publications, 2020.
Caws, Mary Ann. Picasso's Weeping Woman the Life and Art of Dora Maar. Little, Brown, and Co, 2000.
Freeman, Judi. Picasso and the Weeping Women: The Years of Marie-Thérèse Walter & Dora Maar: Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 13 February-1 May 1994, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 12 June-4 September 1994, Art Institute of Chicago, 8 October 1994-8 January 1995. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1994.
Millington, Ruth. Muse. Simon and Schuster, 3 May 2022.
IMAGES
Pablo Picasso, Weeping Woman, 1937, Oil on canvas.
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937, Oil on canvas.
Dora Maar, Self-Portrait, 1920’s, photographic print. Image courtesy of Picasso’s Weeping Woman by Mary Ann Caws.
Dora Maar, Star Model, 1936, photographic print.
Kefer-Dora Studio, Hair Advertisement for Petrole Hahn, 1935, photographic print.
Dora Maar, Untitled, 1934, photographic print.
Dora Maar, Untitled, 1934, photographic print.
Dora Maar, No dole - Work wanted - Lost all in business, 1934, photographic print.
Dora Maar, Untitled (Shell Hand), 1934, photographic print.
Dora Maar, Père Ubu, 1934, photographic print
Rogi André, Portrait de Dora Maar, unknown date, photographic print.
Roland Penrose, Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso at Mougins, France, 1937.
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937, oil on canvas.
Man Ray, Portrait of Dora Maar, 1936, Gelatin silver print on paper.
Dora Maar, Photo Report of the Evolution of “Guernica”, 1937, Gelatin silver print on paper.
Pablo Picasso, Weeping Woman, 1937, oil on canvas.
Dora Maar, Weeping Woman, 1937, oil on canvas.
Man Ray, Roland Penrose, Adrienne Fidelin, Picasso, Dora Maar, 1937, Gelatin silver print on paper.
Pablo Picasso, Night Fishing at Antibes, 1939, oil on canvas.
Dora Maar, Portrait of Pablo Picasso in Black Hat, 1939, oil on canvas.
Pablo Picasso, Seated Woman in Garden, 1938, oil on canvas.
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Dora Maar, 1942, oil on canvas.
The house Picasso gave to Dora Maar in the south of France.
Cecil Beaton Dora Maar behind one of her works, in her studio at 6 rue de Savoie, Paris, 1944.
Brassai, Dora Maar in her Studio, 1944. Pictured with her paintings.
Dora Maar, Nusch Eluard, 1936, b&w photograph.
Izis, Dora Maar 1946, gelatin silver print.
Charles Gimpel, Dora Maar at Home, 1970’s.
Dora Maar, Landscape and Sky, undated, oil on canvas.
Dora Maar, photograms she made in the 1980’s.
