Henriette Theodora Markovitch alias Dora Maar (November 22, 1907 – July 16, 1997) was a French photographer and painter, best known for being a lover and muse of Pablo Picasso.
She was born in Tours, Western France, on November 22, 1907. She died 89 years of age in Paris on July 16, 1997. Her father was Croatian, her mother was born in Tourraine, France. Dora grew up in Argentina.
She was famous as a photographer, and also was a painter herself, before she met Picasso. She made herself better known in the world with her photographs of the successive stages of the completion of Guernica that Picasso painted in his workshop on the rue des Grands Augustins, and other photos of Picasso. Together she and Picasso studied printing with Man Ray.
Picasso met her in January 1936 (when she was 29 years old), at the terrace of the Café Les Deux Magots in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. The famous poet Paul Eluard, who accompanied him, had to introduce him to this beautiful, sad woman. He was attracted by her beauty and self-mutilation (cutting her fingers and the table - 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.
Dora Maar became the rival of blonde Marie-Thérèse Walter who had given a daughter named Maya to Picasso. Picasso often painted beautiful sad Dora (she suffered because she was sterile) and called her his "private muse."
Dora Maar kept his paintings for herself until her death in 1997. They were souvenirs for their extraordinary love affair which made her famous forever. For him she was the "woman in tears" in many aspects. She suffered from his moods during their love affair. Also she hated the idea that in 1943 he had found a new lover, Françoise Gilot. Picasso and Paul Elouard sent Dora to their friend, the psychiatrist Jacques Lacan, who treated her with psychoanalysis. In Paris, still occupied by the Germans, Picasso left to her a drawing of 1915 as a good-bye gift in April 1944; it represents Max Jacob his close friend who had just died in the transit camp of Drancy after his arrest by the Nazis. He also left to her some still lifes and a house at Ménerbes in Provence.
On May 3, 2006, one of Picasso's portraits of her, Dora Maar au Chat (Dora Maar with Cat) was auctioned at Sotheby's at a closing price of US$95,216,000, making it the world's second most expensive painting ever sold at auction [1]. The winning bidder chose to remain anonymous
famous FEMALE spanish painter :Alicia Grau Pérez-Agustín
Spanish artist Alicia Grau Pérez-Agustín is an impressionist living painter who specializes in child and young women portraits. Born in Barcelona in 1955, she divides her working time between her hometown and Florence, Italy.
Her style has been defined unmistakable by art critics for her excellent drawing technique, a measured use of pigments - through which the compact solidity of her textures causes her canvases take on a palpable sensation of volume - and the priming, the scraping and the thick layers of paints that she uses. Like realist painter Antonio Lopez Garcia, Alicia Grau Pérez-Agustín has succeeded in creating an artistic trend among the artists of her generation and her work is now spread throughout the world.
During more than twenty years, she has held a great number of personal exhibitions in most European and US capitals, and her works are today included in private and public art collections
2006-12-01 08:46:23
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answered by yennyfer 2
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Can someone please find me the name of a famous FEMALE spanish painter (NOT FRIDA KAHLO)?
also...it wud help if this painter had some sort of relation to Pablo Picasso...or rather can someone find me a SPANISH woman involved with Picasso.
2015-08-06 03:10:37
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answered by Selie 1
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You may be thinking of Dora Maar.
She was perhaps more famous as one of Picasso's mistresses and portrait subjects, but she was a FEMALE painter. As I remember she wasn't Spanish -- he knew her in Paris, and she came from somewhere else, but she spoke fluent Spanish with Picasso.
IN response to your addition: OK - not the world's most famous painter, but Remedios Varo was a Spanish woman painter, contemporary of Picasso (as was anyone in the 20th Century) and who worked in the surrealist circles in Paris that Picasso did, though she moved to Mexico and lived most of her life there.
2006-12-01 08:33:30
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2016-04-27 18:32:47
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You mean nobody told you that picasso was really a woman??.
And what do you mean by involved??
Are you trying to tell me that Picasso was a lesbian???
2006-12-01 08:43:36
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answered by robert w 3
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