Dora Maar

Woman who cries.
Born in 1907 in Paris from a Croatian tourangelle mother naturalized, Louise Julie Neighbor, married to Trsat (Croatia), in 1903, with the Croatian architect of Zagreb, Josip Markovitch, Henriette Theodora Markovitch, said Maar (1907-1997) Gilded, was high in Buenos Aires. Returned to France in 1926, it studies in the workshop of the painter André Lhote. It met Cartier-Bresson there, before becoming acquainted with all the large photographers of the time. Apostle of the New Photography, very inspired by the surrealist movement, it binds to Picasso, of which it became, eight years during, at the same time the MUSE, the egery and the mistress. In spite of their separation, it will remain his favorite model and the only woman to have influenced her creative genius. In testify the many tables that it devoted to him or those in which it takes it for model, following the example very famous “Woman who cries”. Very shaken by their rupture, Dora Maar will be walled in loneliness, reclue in its Parisian apartment until its death, on July 16, 1997, if they are not some short stays in Croatia. It rests with the cemetery of Clamart, in the south of Paris.