Volume 49, Number 7 · April 25, 2002
The Surreal Life of Dora Maar
By Marilyn McCully
BOOKS AND CATALOGS ABOUT DORA MAAR REFERRED TO IN THIS ARTICLE
Picasso's Weeping Woman:The Life and Art of Dora Maar
by Mary Ann Caws
Bulfinch, 224 pp., $50.00
Dora Maar
Catalog of the exhibition by Victoria Combalía
an exhibition at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, October 13, 2001–January 6, 2002; the Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, January 20–May 4, 2002; and the Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona, May 15–July 15, 2002
Marseille: Centre de la Vieille Charité, 280 pp., #42.00
Dora Maar, la ofrenda misteriosa
by Alicia Dujoune Ortiz
Barcelona: Tusquets, 380 pp., #23.00(to be published in January 2003)
Dora Maar: Picassos Weinende
by Tania Förster
Hamburg: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 190 pp., #22.50
Picasso and Dora
by James Lord
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 340 pp., $28.00 (paper)
Dora Maar, born Markovitch and sometimes called 'the Weeping Woman,' has long been regarded as the most enigmatic of the women who were longtime mistresses or wives of Pablo Picasso. Until now, that is: the retrospective exhibition devoted to Maar, first in Munich, now in Marseille—showing her own photographs and paintings as well as portraits of her by Picasso—and several recent publications give a new sense of what an interesting and accomplished person she was. The richness of the exhibition, whose curator is the Barcelona critic Victoria Combalía, allows us to evaluate Maar's own artistic work for the first time.
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