Musée Picasso
Picasso - Dora Maar
Musée Picasso 01.42.71.25.21. Until 22 may 2006
If
their love lasted only one decade, 1935 to 1945, it was nevertheless
one of most wealthy of the life of Picasso. Dora Maar, angel of
the years of full war, was the love witness of the creation of
immense Guernica in one of the most trouble time of the life of the
painter. When their destinies cross, the beautiful
french-Yugoslavian is a photographer of reputation in the high-class
society, while defending paradoxically of the values of
communism's. Its professor was Man Ray. Woman tigress with a
personality of fire, she was the mistress of George
Bataille and a large friend of surrealists, especially Breton and
Eluard. She is only 28 years old when she decides to seduce
Picasso, 53 years old. In the fire of this impassioned love, he
will
make of her the exclusive model of many paintings during these ten
years,
until seizing its face for suggest some died in its disastrous
paintings. The Woman who Cries in is one of the most famous
translations. Dora will make an extraordinary illustrated
report on the daily creation of Guernica. This exhibition gathers
250 works coming from the whole world to show us the stormy passion
which linked the two artists. Almost all the Picasso Museum
devotes its floors to this huge exhibition.
