Marianne / Dora Maar [after Izis Bidemanas]
2013
print & cutting on prepared paper
34 x 34 cm [unframed]
50 x 50 cm [framed]
edition of 5
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Original photo by Izis Bidemanas, 1940
Dora Maar (November 22, 1907 – July 16, 1997) was a French photographer, poet and painter, best known for being a lover of Pablo Picasso.
Before meeting Picasso, Dora Maar was already known as a photographer. She also painted.
She met Picasso in January 1936 on the terrace of the Café les Deux Magots in Saint-Germaindes-Prés, Paris, when she was 28 years old and he 54. The famous poet Paul Éluard, who was with Picasso, had to introduce them. Picasso was attracted by her beauty and self-mutilation (she cut her fingers and table playing "the knife game"; he got her bloody gloves and exhibited them on a shelf in his apartment). She spoke Spanish fluently, so Picasso was even more fascinated. Their relationship lasted nearly nine years.
Black Cross
la Géométrie №352
Untitled Monochrome