Pablo Picasso: Dora Maar assise Dallas 1943–1953

1943–1953

This book was published on the occasion of Avedon: Women at Gagosian

and dribbled every which way with bright clashes of paint

newly charged

Pablo Picasso: Dora Maar assise Dallas 1943–1953This poster features Pablo Picassos Dora Maar assise (1937), which is held in the collection of the Muse national PicassoParis. The painting portrays its subject, who was Picassos lover for nine tempestuous years, twelve months after she and the artist first met in Paris. Considered one of Picassos masterpieces, it shows Maar as an elegantly attired woman in a relaxed posethough the bars of her chair and the fractured, angular lines of her body hint