View Portrait Dora Maar Picasso 1937 Analyse Background. She was a friend of the poet paul eluard, frequented surrealist circles, and spoke spanish. Interpretation of cubist portrait of dora maar.

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It depicts dora maar, the painter's lover, seated on a chair with a small cat perched on her shoulders. It was the year he denounced the rebellion of general franco against the spanish republic as a war of reaction: Maar and picasso began a love affair in 1936.

Picasso first met her in the autumn of 1935.

He began to draw portraits of her when he was staying. Ella tenía 29 años y él 55. Picasso first met her in the autumn of 1935. © musée picasso paris/béatrice hatala © succession picasso 2014 / artists rights society (ars), new york.