*Picasso and Dora Maar in 1936 at the beginning of their
acquaintance.
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*Dora Maar was 27 when she met Picasso in Paris first. At that
time he was a successful painter, famous and wealthy 55-year-old .
She was a photographer from Argentina, of Jewish origin. The
original name was Theodora Markovic. In the early years he asked
her to take the pictures. Dora Maar was an educated woman, elegant,
cool, serious and sophisticated. Picasso was fascinated by her,
painted her portrait in dozens of pictures. At first, her pictures
were realistic and reasonable, and later he painted her in a
distorted, disjointed faced monstrosity. These pictures are called
weeping woman. After 7 years, she underwent a nervous breakdown.
She died in 1997 at age 88.The pictures are sold at astronomical
world: forty million dollars a picture!
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*Picasso's self portraits4 Portraits of Dora Maar
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*Dora Maar in the paintings have threatening sharp long nails.
Sometimes nails look like sharp knives, and sometimes like claws of
a predator. In this picture Dora Maar has one eye green and one
red. Her right cheek is painted like a juicy apple to cook.
*Here, too, nails similar to knives.
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*Dora Maar, in many pictures wears stylish and elegant hats.
*1939
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Series of pictures weeping woman. Picasso painted Dora Maar with
similar eyelashes brush.
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*Weeping woman 1937
And here is painted with almost no eyelashes
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*This picture was painted in 1941, she was sold in May 2006 at
the astronomical price of $ 95,216,000! Not known who the buyer
was.
