For the first time in Israel will go under the hammer famous painting by Pablo Picasso, painted in 1942, and he captured one of his beloved
"Beautiful Girls" by Picasso, who have one eye always be driven somewhere behind his ear, and the other creeps on his nose, still hold first place in the world auctions. Now the holiday is coming on our street - a Tel Aviv street Ayarkon, which will be held the 13th in a row auction Montefiore. The most expensive lot of the coming auction will be a painting by Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Dora Maar": it is tentatively estimated at 350-450 thousand dollars.
A great artist is known to me a woman like gloves. "Nothing seems so at the poodle, as another poodle. The same can be said about women," - said he and the ... easily erasing his wives and mistresses of their own lives, no thinking over the state in which he leaves them . Do not avoid this fate, and Dora Maar - poet, painter, photographer, one of the many paramours of genius madman. It was her face, Picasso broke and distorted in his works, which without number: "Dora Maar" to this day can be found at any auction of impressionist and modernist - in the form of an outline, a head, half-figures, and even the whole portrait. The artist shows her constantly in the late 1930's and early 1940's, it was for him a symbol of pre-war crisis in the Old World. Hundreds of portraits - paintings and drawings, classical and kubistskih, a hat, with green fingernails and in the form of chimera - and now excite the imagination of critics and collectors. "For years, I wrote her a broken person of sadism, and not for pleasure, I saw, and it was stronger than me" - thought of Picasso. After these sessions Beauty Dora came to the hospital for the mentally ill. She died in poverty. That, however, only adds to the value of its portraits.
The daughter of a Frenchwoman and an architect-Croat, Dora Maar (real name - Henriette Theodora Markovich) grew up in Argentina. In 1920 arrived in Paris, she studied painting and photography, in 1935 opened his own photo studio. Her photomontage "Papa Ubyu" became a kind of calling card of surrealism. With Picasso's Dora introduced Paul Eluard - it happened in 1936, in the famous Parisian cafe bohemia Deux Magots. Dora was 28, Pablo - 53. Picasso told me that at first sight was fascinated by it: rock, dark-haired beauty appeared in black gloves, lined little pink flowers, and then took off her gloves and began to play with a sharp knife, checking how close to your own fingers can lodge it in a table ...
Their relationship lasted 9 years. Paris Picasso Museum, even arranged a separate exhibition on the history of their love. We know a lot of portraits by Picasso, Dora Maar performed. And she was a sponsor of "Guernica", as evidenced by the hundreds of negatives and contact prints found in her personal papers after her death.
"Portrait of Dora Maar", exhibited at the Tel Aviv trades, was written in January 1942. In our country rarity comes from the collection of the Paris house Revillon. "This is one of the last portraits of Dora Maar, written shortly before the lovers parted forever - writes Dr. Gidon Efrat. - At this time, Picasso decided to give Dora four eyes and two faces, while limiting the total in three shades: brown, black and purple. In fact, we have a caricature. It is possible that at the time Picasso felt for Dora is not the warmest feelings. "
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Went to the pre-auction showing lots (as in now expressing !
), seen the Dora in nature, as well as all the other pictures. Got 2 for free catalog, one big and one small. By the way, except for me in the hall was empty. All looked, felt satisfied.