Untitled Drawing of a Reclining Woman

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Dora Maar
Untitled Drawing of a Reclining Woman
second half 20th century

About the Item

Untitled drawing of a reclining woman, from the page of a sketchbook. Signed D.M. and stamped on verso. Matted and recently framed under glass in a gray wooden frame. Sight: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Dora Maar was a strong, fascinating, talented and accomplished woman long before she became, for better or worse, the muse and lover of Pablo Picasso. Born Henriette Markovitch in 1907, Maar spent her childhood in Paris and Buenos Aires where her father was an architect. Upon the family's return to Paris in 1926 she began her art training in earnest at the Central Union of Decorative Arts, the School of Photography, the École des Beaux-Arts and the Academie Julian. During those early years she was introduced to Henri Cartier-Bresson and befriended surrealist artist Jacqueline Lamba. Dora Maar would be associated with surrealism, and its associated leftist, anti-fascist politics, for much of her career. What is especially striking is her early determination to make a name for herself as a commercial photographer, establishing an independent studio and even sharing a darkroom at one time with Brassaï. By the 1930s she had emerged as a leading photographer and exhibited in Paris galleries alongside Man Ray and Salvador Dali. In 1935 Maar was introduced to Pablo Picasso and became his companion and muse for 9 years. Maar took pictures in Picasso's Grands-Augustins studio. It is said that Picasso used her photographs of the various stages of his master work, Guernica, to shape the final outcome. Despite Maar's positive induce on his work, Picasso preferred to see her as a victim and often portrayed her in his works as "the weeping woman," a depiction Dora Maar resented. After their separation in 1943 Dora Maar received treatment for her depression, renewed her interest in Catholicism and migrated from photography to painting landscapes as well as abstracted figural works. Maar's work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, most notably at the Centre Pompidou and the Tate Modern in 2019. Among other institutions, her work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Getty Museum.

Creator:
Dora Maar (1907 - 1997, French)
Creation Year:
second half 20th century
Dimensions:
Height: 17 in (43.18 cm)Width: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
Medium:
Paper,Ink
Movement & Style:
Modern
Period:
1970-1979
Condition:
Minor toning to paper around edges. Note examined outside of frame.
Gallery Location:
Providence, RI
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU136426347582