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Author Mallén, Enrique.

Title PABLO PICASSO and DORA MAAR A Period of Conflict (1936-1946)
Published Portland : Sussex Academic Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (384 p.)
Contents Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue -- Location Map -- 1. 1936 Deux femmes enlacées -- 2. 1937 La femme qui pleure -- 3. 1938 Femme la main sur une clé -- 4. 1939 Tête de femme à deux profils -- 5. 1940 Femme se coiffant -- 6. 1941 Le désir attrapé par la queue -- 7. 1942 L'aubade -- 8. 1943 La fenêtre rétrécie (de l'atelier) -- 9. 1944 Femme en bleu -- 10. 1945 Le charnier -- 11. 1946 La joie de vivre -- Notes -- Cited Works of Picasso -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary Although Pablo Picasso spotted Dora Maar at a café in January 1936 it is highly likely that she had come to his attention prior. As Brassaï, a Hungarian-French photographer, recalled, "It was at Les Deux-Magots that, one day in autumn 1935, [he] met Dora ... On an earlier day, he had already noticed the grave, drawn face of the young woman at a nearby table, the attentive look in her light-colored eyes, sometimes disturbing in its fixity. When Picasso saw her in the same café in the company of the surrealist poet Paul éluard, who knew her, the poet introduced her to Picasso" (Brassaï, a.k.a. Gyula Halász, Conversations with Picasso [University of Chicago Press, 1999]). Tinged with a seductive mix of violence and dark eroticism, this first meeting has attained mythical status in the story of the artist's life. It reads like an unreal fantasy. A mysterious and feline beauty, which Man Ray had captured in the pictures he took of her, a companion of Georges Bataille, Dora was an accomplished photographer, close to the Surrealists' revolutionary aesthetics. Picasso addressed her in French, which he assumed to be her language; she replied in Spanish, which she knew to be his. For the next decade, the painter would translate not just his fascination with the woman who had seduced him on the spot, but also his desire to escape the grip of someone who, for the first time, could intellectually aspire to be his equal. Dora would appear in his works as a female Minotaur, a Sphinx, a lunar goddess and a muse. Because of her intense artistic sensibility, her poetic gifts and her ability to participate in suffering, she was especially qualified to resonate Picasso's own inner torments during these troubled years
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.
Maar, Dora.
SUBJECT Maar, Dora fast
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 fast
Subject Artists -- France
Artists
France
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1782847197
9781782847199