Portrait de Dora Maar 1937. 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 … 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. See more ideas about Dora maar, Dora, Photographer. [14] She also participated in Participates in Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, at the MoMA in New York the same year. Henriette Theodora Markovitch (22 November 1907 – 16 July 1997), known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer, painter, and poet. ‘Double Portrait’ was created in 1930 by Dora Maar in Surrealism style. 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. [3], David Norman, Chairman of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Department Worldwide, summarised the importance of the composition.[2]. As Picasso's mistress and main model, Dora Maar was the artist's main source of inspiration and his artistic companion. The painting was then obtained by Chicago collectors Leigh and Mary Block by 1947. Portrait of Dora Maar with necklace, 1937. [4], She also was involved in many Surrealist groups and often participated in demonstrations, convocations, and cafe conversations. Tête de femme (Dora Maar) é uma escultura em gesso, modelada em bronze, de Pablo Picasso. The winning buyer is listed as Georgian businessman and billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili. 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. Picasso was drawn to Maar not only for her beauty, but also for her intellect and artistic nature. Like her medieval paragon, this latter-day Jeanne d’Arc suffered a trial and ordeal by fire—but narrowly survived. Man Ray usa su manga de terciopelo negro para revelar el misterio y la abstracción en la hermosa cara de Dora Maar. Here, instead of exploring her form in oil Picasso returned to the papiers-colles days of Synthetic Cubism with this highly effective, small, square-shaped work. It is considered one of the important works of Picasso's Rose Period. [1], This painting was made during the year 1941, at the beginning of World War II. Find more prominent pieces of photo at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. Maar had her first publication in the magazine Art et Métiers Graphiques in 1932. Picasso bought her a house in Ménerbes, Vaucluse, where she retired and lived alone. Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at fr:Dora Maar; see its history for attribution. Theodora Markovitch föddes 1907 i Tours i Frankrike. Henriette Theodora Markovitch was the only daughter of Josip Marković (aka Joseph Markovitch) (1874–1969), a Croatian architect who studied in Zagreb, Vienna, and then Paris where he settled in 1896, and of his spouse, Catholic-raised Louise-Julie Voisin (1877–1942), originally from Cognac, France. 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". She was a lover and muse of Pablo Picasso. Dora Maar, Picasso's lover at the time, was the subject of the work which was originally conceived in 1941.Four copies of the bust were cast in the 1950s, several years after the relationship ended. Dora Maar, amante de Picasso na época, foi o tema do trabalho que foi originalmente concebido em 1941.Quatro cópias do busto foram lançadas na década de … See more ideas about Dora maar, Dora, Man ray. The outlines of shapes in the body are accentuated in black, while Maar's face is sculpted in white. 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. 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. Dora Maar (* 22. Dora Maar pravim imenom Henriette Theodora Markovitch (* Tours, 7. jul 1907.- † Pariz, 28. mart 1997.) The powerful figure is set in a dramatic, yet simple setting composed of a vertiginously inclined plane of wooden floorboards and shallow interior space that is arranged in a manner reminiscent of Picasso’s earliest manipulations of space in a Cubist manner. [9], Her first solo exhibition was held at the Galerie Vanderberg in Paris. It is between the 1960s and 70s that there was the beginning of a respite when she experimented with abstract formats in shimmering colors. They were formally introduced by a French Surrealist poet named Paul Éluard. As Brigitte Léal has observed with regard to the portraits of Dora Maar that Picasso painted in the early 1940s, ‘...they embody the height of modern beauty as [André] Breton envisioned it, based on the principle of vital disorder, which the figure of Dora Maar, in her extreme mutability, her real, spiritual restlessness, will forever incarnate’. Maar was played by Samantha Colley in the 2018 season of Genius, which focuses on the life and art of Picasso. [11][12][13] The photograph represents the central character in a popular series of plays by Alfred Jarry called Ubu Roi. (lower right) pencil on paper 14 7/8 x 20 1/8 in. The presence a cat in the same painting presents an allusion to the timeless combination of sexual aggression and feminine wiles. 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. Drawn on 2 March 1937 Provenance Dora Maar, Paris (gift from the artist); Estate sale, Piasa, Paris, 27 October 1998, lot 13. [4], In 1935 she took a photo of fashion illustrator and designer Christian Berard that was described by writer and critic Michael Kimmelman as “wry and mischievous with only his head perceived above the fountain as if he were John the Baptist on a silver platter”. [4], During 2005 and 2006, Dora Maar au Chat, then owned by the Gidwitz family of Chicago, was shown worldwide as part of Sotheby's exhibitions in London, Hong Kong and New York. 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. Maar spent most of her childhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where her father worked on a number of projects. 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.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. Henriette Theodora Markovitch, pseudonym Dora Maar (22 November 1907 – 16 July 1997), was a French photographer, painter, and poet. – Pariz, 16. srpnja 1997.) Portrait of Dora Maar, 1943. They also worked a bit on fashion magazines. Their relationship was intensely passionate and tempestuous and she challenged Picasso both intellectually and artistically. 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. Ella y Picasso estudiaron juntos el grabado con Man Ray, quien tomó esta foto de ella en 1936. 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. 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. Juli 1997 in Paris; gebürtig Henriette Theodora Markovitch) war eine französische Fotografin, Malerin, Modell und Muse Pablo Picassos. Dora Maar, a pseudonym she chose, took courses at the Central Union of Decorative Arts and the School of Photography. She asked me, “where are those famous surrealists?" 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。 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]. [29] Her experiments with photograms and dark-room photography were only found posthumously. He once described her as an "Afghan cat" in reference to her personality. Marie-Therese Walter. 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. 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. Jacqueline then began to frequent the cafe where she would eventually meet André Breton, whom she would later marry. The presence of the subject is pronounced, reflecting the way a queen would sit on her throne. The painting is a rare, three-quarter length portrait of Maar, who is sitting in an armchair. The faceted planes of her body and richly layered surface of brushstrokes impart a monumental and sculptural quality to this dazzling portrait. [7], She met the photographer Brassaï with whom she shared the darkroom in the studio. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Ela foi sepultada no Cemitério Russo de Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois , em Clamart . [4], In the 1980s she made a number of photograms. 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. Dora Maar frequented André Lhote's workshop where she met Henri Cartier-Bresson. [30], Although Maar is mostly remembered as one of Picasso's lovers,[31] there have been many recent exhibits presenting her as an artist in her own right, including exhibitions at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, 13 October 2001 – 6 January 2002; the Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, 20 January – 4 May 2002; the Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona, 15 May – 15 July 2002; the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 5 June 2019 – 29 July 2019;[32] and the Tate Modern, London, 20 November 2019 – 15 March 2020.[33]. Charles Moffett, Vice Chairman of Sotheby’s, remarked on the painting's significance.[2]. Still life with mask. In the studio, Maar and Kefer worked together mostly on commercial photography for advertisements and fashion magazines. She died on 16 July 1997, at 89 years old. In the majority of these paintings, Dora Maar was represented as a tortured, anguished woman. In the 1920s, Dora Maar took numerous photos with a Rolleiflex camera while on a cargo ship going to the Cape Verde Islands. It was from the painful separation of Picasso that Dora Maar truly became a painter. The painting is also remarkable for its brilliance of color and the complex and dense patterning of the model’s dress. She felt that art should represent the content of reality through links with intuitions or ideas, rather than visually reproduce the natural. Dora Maar still continued to be an abiding creative and intellectual influence in Picasso's life, particularly during the early war years. 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. 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. [10], It is the gelatin silver works of the surrealist period that remain the most sought after by admirers: Portrait of Ubu (1936), 29 rue d'Astorg, black and white, collages, photomontages or superimpositions. Woman Seated at the Grey Dress, 1943. This possibly reflects Freud's writings about the double self existing in every person. It is currently the sixth highest selling painting by Picasso. November 1907 in Tours; 16. The most well known of these portraits is “The Weeping Woman”. Dora Maar is very well known for her role as Picasso's lover, subject, and muse. Weeping Woman. Figure (Dora Maar), 1945. 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. Armor and a resilient, fighting spirit may have saved this portrait of Dora during the Second World War. [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. In 1926, the family returned to Paris. 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. He used faceted planes and blocks of colour to sculpt her body. She was part of an ultra-leftist association called “Masses”, where she first met Georges Bataille,[4] an anti-fascist organization called the Union of Intellectuals Against Fascism,[16] and a radical collective of left-wing actors and writers called October. They sold the painting in 1963. 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. Picasso fell in love with the 29-year-old Maar at the age of 55 and the couple began living together. She was captivated by him, but they did not formally meet. Dora Maar . The painted works of Dora Maar remained unrecognized until their posthumous sale, organized in 1999, which made the public and professionals discover a very personal production that had never left her studio. Oct 25, 2017 - Dora Maar (November 22, 1907 – July 16, 1997), born Henriette Theodora Marković, was an Argentinian-raised photographer of French and Croatian descent, with further known artistic work in poetry, and painting; she is most widely known as Pablo Picasso's muse of nearly a decade (beginning late 1930s),. [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. Més tard, seguint el consell de Marcel Zahar, va continuar els seus estudis de fotografia matriculant-se a L'École de fotografie de la Ville de … After years of struggling with depression,[25] Dora Maar confined herself within her own memories. 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. 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. 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. 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. Dora Maar era una fotógrafa y tomó fotos de la obra de Picasso, incluyendo su “Guérnica”. 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. From Musée Picasso Paris, Pablo Picasso, Portrait de Dora Maar (Portrait of Dora Maar) (1937), Oil on canvas, 92 × 65 cm Dora Maar au Chat, em português Dora Maar com Gato, é uma das mais famosas obras do espanhol Pablo Picasso.. Este bom exemplar cubista retrata a mais famosa amante e a grande musa inspiradora do artista, Dora Maar. Graphics. [6] She took pictures in his studio at the Grands Augustins and tracked the latter stages of his epic work, Guernica. [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. 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. [27], Maar spent her last years in her apartment in Rue de Savoie, in the Left Bank of Paris. Dora prepares to battle, pour la France, in the guise of a 20th century Jeanne d'Arc. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. Maar's face is presented from two angles, one half in profile with the eye looking straight at the viewer, and the other half of a full face. Maar was introduced to Picasso a few days later by their mutual friend Paul Eluard at Cafe des Deux Magots. Portrait de femme (Dora Maar), 1943. Portrait of Marie-Therese. [15], Surrealist concepts and interests often aligned with the ideas of the political left of the time and so Maar became very politically active at this point in her life. The canvas is one of many portraits of Dora Maar painted by Pablo Picasso over their nearly decade-long relationship. When asked about his portraits of her, she said “all portraits of me are lies. She later met Brassai who was also a photographer. Guernica. Brassai once said that she had “bright eyes and an attentive gaze, a disturbing stare at times”.[4]. 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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. The composition is a construction of shapes with vertically inclined planes that contrast with the lines of the wooden floor in the background. 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 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. 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. The face is shown in a combined frontal and profile view, with a red eye and a green eye facing in different directions. May 13, 2016 - Explore Bilek Mirko's board "Dora Maar" on Pinterest. Elle fut l'une des amantes et muses de Pablo Picasso, rôle qui a longtemps occulté l'ensemble de son œuvre. [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. It was in the 1980s, though that the painter expressed herself fully in her many paintings of the Luberon region. [28] She was buried in the Bois-Tardieu cemetery in Clamart. [2], In this painting, Picasso aims to depict not only Dora's beauty, but also her temperament. Picasso ironitzava sobre l'activitat fotogràfica de Dora. ‘Portrait of Dora Maar’ was created in 1937 by Pablo Picasso in Surrealism style. 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. 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. Her father was Croatian and became an architect; her mother was French and brought up in the Catholic faith. While studying at the École des Beaux-Arts, Maar met fellow female surrealist Jacqueline Lamba. Maar assisted Picasso with his artwork, particularly during his creation of Guernica, which she documented with photographs. In 1930, she established a photo studio with Pierre Keferwho was a photographer. Dora Maar au Chat is one of the largest portraits of the subject by Picasso. In 1935 she was introduced to Pablo Picasso and she became his companion and his muse. [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. She turned to the Catholic religion, met the painter Nicolas de Staël (who lived in the same village), and turned to abstract painting.[24]. As the writer explains in the introduction of her bestselling memoir, Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life (Je suis le carnet de Dora Maar), longlisted this year for the prestigious Prix Renaudot, the book would never have been written if her husband, Thierry Demaizière, hadn’t lost his vintage leather Hermès agenda. Picasso was intrigued by Dora's seductive and masochistic behaviour, which served as inspiration for many of his works throughout their relationship. Picasso had already painted Maar many times before creating this painting. They’re Picassos. Dora Maar frequented the "October group", formed around Jacques Prévert and Max Morise after their break from surrealism. [7] Dora Maar also met Louis-Victor Emmanuel Sougez, a photographer working for advertising, archeology and artistic director of the newspaper L'Illustration, whom she considered a mentor. [8] As such, he painted many portraits of her. 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. Dora Maar au Chat (English: Dora Maar with Cat) is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. Dora Maar, pravim imenom Henriette Theodora Markovitch, (Tours, 22. studenoga 1907. (37.7 x 51 cm.) Aquesta no estava del tot satisfeta amb l'ensenyament a l'Acadèmia Lothe. In 1910, the family left for Buenos Aires where the father obtained several commissions including for the embassy of Austria-Hungary. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Portrait de Dora Maar endormie dated 'le 2 mars 37.' and I told her about cafe de la Place Blanche.' After that, the painting was never seen in public until the 21st century. They shared the darkroom in t… Tête de femme (Dora Maar) is a plaster-modelled, bronze-cast sculpture by Pablo Picasso. Dora Maar. Dora Maar was born Henrietta Theodora Markovitch on November 22, 1907 in Tours, France. 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, … 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 shared Picasso's political views and also spoke Spanish. She was Picasso's principal model, and he often represented her in tears. [2], Picasso depicted Maar's portrait in the Cubist style. More from 1937. Henriette Theodora Markovitch (22 November 1907 – 16 July 1997), known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer, painter, and poet. 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.