Dora Maar ( French Dora Maar , real name Henrietta Theodora Markovich , Henriette Theodora Markovitch , November 22, 1907 , Tours - July 16, 1997 , Paris ) - French artist and photographer .
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| Genre | artist , photographer |
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Biography and Creativity
The daughter of a Frenchwoman from Touraine and an architect of Croatian descent, grew up in Argentina .
In 1920 she came to Paris, studied painting , then photography , met Brassay , Cartier-Bresson , became close to surrealists ( Breton , Bataille , etc.). She was an assistant to Man Ray , in 1935 she opened her own photo studio. Her photo montage “Dad Ubyu” ( 1936 ) became a kind of visiting card of surreal art.
In 1936, at the Paris cafe “ De Mago ” Paul Eluard introduced Maar to Picasso , whose girlfriend, model and muse she became for 9 years. Maar photographed a lot of Picasso (especially during his work on " Guernica "), under his influence turned to painting. Picasso often created images of the sad Maar, in his work she forever remained a “crying woman”.
In 1945 , after breaking up with Picasso, Maar survived a severe mental crisis, was treated in a psychiatric clinic by Jacques Lacan . After an exhibition of paintings ( 1957 ), for many years she shut herself up in her apartment, wrote poems and paintings , and was almost forgotten.
The fully pictorial heritage of Maar, highly praised by the public and critics , was presented only at the posthumous retrospective exhibition ( 1999 ).
Death
Dora Maar spent her last years in her apartment on Savoy Street, on the left bank of Paris. She died on July 16, 1997 at the age of 89. She was buried in the Bois-Tardieu cemetery in Clamart. [five]
Recognition
- The novels by Dragana Bukumirovich “Dora Maar” ( 1998 ) and Nicole Avril “I, Dora Maar” ( 2002 , German transl. 2004 ) were written about the artist.
- Her role in the movie James Ivory " Living a Life with Picasso " ( 1996 ) was played by Julianne Moore , the role of Picasso was played by Anthony Hopkins . In the second season of the series " Genius ", the role of Maar was played by Samantha Collie.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ Dora Maar
- ↑ 1 2 Benezit Dictionary of Artists - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ Dora Maar (1907 - 1997) . www.lemondedesarts.com. Date of treatment April 19, 2019.
Literature
- Lord J. Picasso and Dora: a personal memoir. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1993
- Caws MA Picasso's weeping woman: the life and art of Dora Maar. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 2000
- Förster T. Dora Maar: Picassos Weinende. Hamburg: Europ. Verl.-Anst., 2001.
- Avril N. Moi, Dora Maar: roman. Paris: Plon, 2002
- Dujovne Ortiz A. Dora Maar: prisonnière du regard. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 2003
- Baldassari A. Picasso-Dora Maar. Paris: Flammarion; London: Thames & Hudson, 2006
- Krauss R. Bachelors. M .: Progress-Tradition, 2004, p. 18-37