Paintings Reproductions Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937 by Pablo Picasso (Inspired By) (1881-1973, Spain) | WahooArt.com

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"Portrait of Dora Maar"

Pablo Picasso (i) - Oil On Canvas (i) - 92 x 65 cm - 1937 - Surrealism (i)
Pablo Picasso had met Dora Maar in Les Deux Magots where he would go for his evening walks. The two would stay entangled for nine years in a tumultuous relationship. Picasso was intrigued by her seductive and masochistic behavior and she became his principal model, he made several canvases of her throughout the years, often sad and even in tears. The Portrait of Dora Maar shows her seated on a chair, wearing an art deco jacket with a flower motif, and square patterns on her skirt. Her nails are red and her body seems relaxed but this is juxtaposed with the prison-like appearance of her chair and background filled with horizontal lines. Picasso paints her face with a combination of frontal and profile view, making one eye face the artist while the other eye looks inside. She is drawn with short and sharp broken lines, suggesting her psychological imbalance. Picasso explains, “Women are suffering machines. When I paint a woman in an armchair, the chair is old age and death, right? Too bad for her. Or it's to protect her.”

 





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