Picasso oil paintings - Who was Dora Maar?

Question

I noticed that Picasso painted a lot of portraits of this lady called Dora Maar. I aspecially like this portrait he did of her and a black cat... http://www.overstockart.com/domawicat.html . can anyone give me some background information on Dora Maar? Thanks...

Answer 1

here are some sites talking about dora maar picaso's former lover
http://www.designtoscano.com/jump.jsp?itemID=5191&itemType=PRODUCT&path

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/picasso/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Maar