Picasso painting not seen for 80 years unveiled by Paris auction house | Pablo Picasso
A newly discovered picture of Pablo Picasso of French photographer and painter Dora Maar, a painting for 80 years during the German occupation of Paris.
A woman’s bust (Dora Maar) on a flowered hat ended towards the end of the couple’s turbulent nine -year relationship, and Maar’s Picasso’s at that time shows a softer, more colorful light than the previous portraits of her previous portraits.
Picasso, Dora Maar and Dora Maar AU, including the famous portrait of the conversation, but he said to them: “My portraits are lies. All Picassos. One is not Dora Maar.”
At the end of 1935, the couple met while taking photos to introduce Jean Renoir’s Monsieur Lange Crime. At that time, Picasso was in a relationship with Marie-Thérèse Walter, a daughter, Maya, which continued with Maar for years.
The masochist tendencies often represented Maar, who fascinated him, represented as a figure often tortured in tears, as in La Femme Qui Pleure (crying woman), who said that experts aimed to represent the pain of the Spanish civil war, but was also an indication of those allegedly. Maar’s abuse And many physical fights of the couple.
In the rediscovered study, Maar’s face appears to be grieving and crying in bright color without perspective but without perspective. At that time, Maar had learned that 61 -year -old Picasso aimed to leave him for a 21 -year -old artist Françoise Gilot.
The portrait was completed in July 1943 and exhibited only several times except Paris Atelier in Rue des Grands Augustins. In a special collection since it was purchased in August 1944 – the month of liberation of Paris.
His presence was known from a black and white photograph that was taken shortly before the sale in an art catalog. The seller inherited from an official grandfather, an anonymous French collector, asked to remain anonymous.
The Nazis, who occupied Paris during the Second World War, considered Picasso’s work as “degeneration ,, which led to a threat of prohibition to exhibit his workshops and to exhibit his paintings.
Maar, who died in Paris in 1997 at the age of 89, was credited because Picasso was a subject and lover of Muse, but he was a surrealist photographer on his own and had a great impact on his work during his relationship.
80 cm x 60cm measuring oil paint, about € 8 million (£ 6.9 million) estimated as a conservative, but waiting to bring much more auction house Lucien Paris, on Thursday before the opening of the presence of the picture was a secret.
The auction said that this was an important discovery in the auction, and described the work as a rare example of how a masterpiece and Picasso’s output was a very needed light in the dark days of the occupation. He said that the experts knew that they exist from photos, but the real colors of the study could be seen for the first time.
“Not only in the history of art, but also in Picasso’s private life, Lucien said.
“Dora Maar’s refreshing portrait is full of extraordinary and emotion. Discovering it is a great moment in our lives as experts.”
Figure will be sold by Lucien Paris on October 24 at auction and will be exhibited three days before the sale.
