Information AboutDora Maar |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT DORA MAAR | |
| 1907 births | |
| maar, dora | |
| 1997 deaths | |
| french photographers | |
| pablo picasso | |
| croatian-french people | |
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She was born in Tours , Western France , on December 22 , 1907 . She died 89 years of age in Paris on July 16 , 1997 . Her father was of Croatia n origin, her mother was born in the Tourraine, France. Dora grew up in Argentina . She was famous as photographer, and also was a painter herself, before she met Picasso . She made herself better known in the world with her photographs of the successive stages of the completion of '' Guernica '' that Picasso painted in his workshop of the rue des Grands Augustins, and other photos of Picasso. Together she and Picasso studied printing with Man Ray . Picasso met her in January 1936 (when she was 29 years old), at the terrace of the ''Café Les Deux Magots'' in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris , the famous poet Paul Eluard , who accompanied him had to introduce him to this beautiful, sad woman. He was attracted by her beauty and Self Mutilation (cutting her fingers and the table - he got her bloody gloves and exhibited them on a shelf in his apartment). She spoke Spanish fluently, so Picasso was even more fascinated. Their relationship lasted nearly nine years. Dora Maar became the rival of blonde Marie-Thérèse Walter who had given a daughter named Maya to Picasso. Picasso often painted beautiful sad Dora (she suffered for she was sterile), he called her his "private Muse ." Dora Maar kept his paintings for herself until her death in . Picasso and Paul Elouard sent Dora to their friend, the psychiatrist Jacques Lacan, who treated her with Psychoanalysis . In Paris, still occupied by the Germans, Picasso left her as a good-bye gift in April 1944 a drawing of 1915 representing Max Jacob his close friend who had just died in the transit camp of Drancy after his arrest by the Nazis . He also left her some Still Lives and a house at Ménerbes in the Provence . EXTERNAL LINKS
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