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Friday, April 07, 2006

Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar


I read this in anticipation of my visit to the Picasso Museum in Paris , one of my favourites, which is staging a Picasso and Dora Maar exhibition. This is a big book with lots of pictures and the list price is $72.00, although I paid considerably less ($4.00) at the Book Depot. Not enough depth to be a good biography but interesting nonetheless. Dora was a very good artist in her own right with impeccable credentials within the Surrealist movement as a photographer and a painter. She was an ardent socialist and had, by all accounts, a sharp intellect. She was treated badly by Picasso but it's likely that she gave as good as she got. She spent her later years as a recluse in the south of France. Having seen some of the art and its background I can hardly wait to see the show in Paris.

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