Dora maar

The woman is Dora Maar, one of Picasso's muses/lovers, but I think the artist who created this piece is Man Ray.

Dora Maar is mostly remembered as Picasso’s muse and lover, but his portrait of her as the Weeping Woman, bordering on madness, detracts from her singular work as a prominent photographer of the surrealist movement. Henriette Théodora Markovitch was born to a French mother and...

Dora Maar’s “Double Portrait,” 1930s, made with double exposure photograhy.

Surrealism, erotica, photojournalism and acid: in this beautifully curated show, Dora Maar’s creativity far outweighs her relationship with Picasso

The erotic, the exaggerated and the elegant are interwoven in all the accounts of Dora Maar’s meeting with Picasso in 1936. Here is Jean-Paul Crespelle’s version of the tale. Picasso is with his friend Paul Eluard at the Cafè des Deux Magots, where he notices a beautiful, intense-faced brunette seated at a neighbouring

MAN RAY (1890-1976), Dora MAAR (1907-1997), and Paul ELUARD (as 'Didier Desroches'; 1895-1952). Le Temps déborde. Paris: Cahiers d'Arts, 1947. 4° (247 x 185mm). Frontispiece and 10 illustrations after photographs by Man Ray and Dora Maar. Original printed wrappers (small chips at spine ends); in early, possibly contemporary glassine (chipped at the spine, browned); blue morocco clamshell case, unsigned but by Cambras, and blue cloth chemise.

Maar's photographic experiments reject the pretense of naturalism in straightforward photography and attempt to achieve something much deeper than resemblance.