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Dora Maar

Dora Maar (1907 - 1997) was active/lived in France.  Dora Maar is known for Abstract, genre, figure.

Although she was well known as a friend, model and "muse" of Picasso, it is often forgotten that Dora Maar herself was a successful artist. Long before her yearlong liaison with Picasso, she had produced an outstanding and comprehensive collection of photography and was an important artist.

Nevertheless, the relationship with Picasso, the character and disposition of the person Dora Maar and her personality as a woman, both in publications about Picasso and in the few that are dedicated to her, assume an unusually great significance in art-history literature. Naturally, the person and the artist Dora Maar are inextricably interlinked. For example, her close link to the Surrealists can be ascribed equally to her much described enigmatic and unapproachable radiance and to the artistic statement that characterizes her photographs and photomontages since the early 1930s.

Born on 22 November 1907 as the daughter of Joseph Markovitch from Yugoslavia and the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2784 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Dora Maar

   Dora Maar  Born:  1907 - Tours, France
Died:   1997
Known for:  Abstract, genre, figure
Name variants:  Henriette Theodora Markovitch

Although she was well known as a friend, model and "muse" of Picasso, it is often forgotten that Dora Maar herself was a successful artist. Long before her yearlong liaison with Picasso, she had produced an outstanding and comprehensive collection of photography and was an important artist.

Nevertheless, the relationship with Picasso, the character and disposition of the person Dora Maar and her personality as a woman, both in publications about Picasso and in the few that are dedicated to her, assume an unusually great significance in art-history literature. Naturally, the person and the artist Dora Maar are inextricably interlinked. For example, her close link to the Surrealists can be ascribed equally to her much de  ...  Displaying 750 of 2784 characters.

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