“She would have had to select something just right.”
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Dora Maar
Henriette Theodora Markovitch, known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer and painter. Maar was both a pioneering Surrealist artist and an antifascist activist. From 1935 to 1943, Maar was in a relationship with Pablo Picasso, and was depicted in a number of paintings, including his Portrait of Dora Maar and Dora Maar au Chat.
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culture · French artist and partner of Pablo Picasso (1907–1997) · photographer · painter · poet · choreographer · sculptor · model · writer · etcher · also Dora Maar, Théodora Markovic, Henrietta Théodora Markovic, Teodora Marković, Theodora Markovitch Maar, Henriette Theodora Markovitch
Born 22 November 1907 · Died 16 July 1997 · Q236161
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2026· 5 entries
“I have as much reason as you have to be here. I haven”
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“Finally, Marie-Thérèse turned to me and said,”
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“She kept driving a small pointed pen-knife between her fingers into the wood of the table. Sometimes she missed and a drop of blood appeared between the roses embroidered on her black gloves... Picasso would ask Dora to give him the gloves and would lock them up in the showcase he kept for his mementos.”
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“I was closely linked with Jacqueline. She asked me,”
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2025· 1 entry
New York Daily News: Picasso portrait of muse Dora Maar in vivid hat, long hidden from view, sells for 32 million euros
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2024· 1 entry
Artnet: A New Show Celebrates Surrealist Photographer Dora Maar on Her Own Terms
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2023· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Dora Maar, Secrets d'atelier
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2020· 1 entry
Vogue: Dora Maar Is the New Consignment Site Selling Luxury Through Storytelling and Community
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2019· 2 entries
Artnet: Most Know Photographer Dora Maar as Picasso’s Spurned Lover. But a New Exhibition Argues We Got Her Story All Wrong
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Hyperallergic: Dora Maar's Seductive Surrealism
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1997· 1 entry
Died 1997-07-16.
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1944· 1 entry
Through the intermediary Paul Éluard, Maar met Jacques Lacan, who took care of her after she suffered a nervous breakdown
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1943· 1 entry
Although they continued to meet occasionally until 1946
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1932· 1 entry
Had an affair with the filmmaker Louis Chavance, and had her first publication in the magazine Art et Métiers Graphiques
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1931· 1 entry
Maar established a photography studio with Pierre Kéfer under the name 'Kéfer-Dora Maar
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1926· 1 entry
When Maar was 19 years old; it was around this time that she adopted the pseudonym Dora Maar
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1910· 1 entry
The family left for Buenos Aires, Argentina, where Josip had obtained several commissions, including designing the embassy of Austria-Hungary
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1907· 1 entry
Born 1907-11-22.
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