Picasso painting not seen for 80 years unveiled by Paris auction house
A newly discovered painting by Pablo Picasso of the French photographer and painter Dora Maar completed during the German occupation of Paris that has not been seen for 80 years, has been unveiled.
The work, Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat (Dora Maar), was finished towards the end of the couple’s turbulent nine-year relationship and shows Maar in a softer, more colourful light than Picasso’s previous portraits of his then lover.
Picasso made many paintings of Maar, including the famous, Portrait of Dora Maar and Dora Maar au Chat, but she said of them: “All of his portraits of me are lies. They’re all Picassos. Not one is Dora Maar.”
The couple met at the end of 1935 when she was taking photographs to promote Jean Renoir’s film The Crime of Monsieur Lange. At the time, Picasso was in a relationship with Marie-Thérèse Walter, with whom he had a daughter Maya, that continued during his years with Maar.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/sep/18/picasso-painting-hidden-for-80-years-auction-paris
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Photo of painting at link.
It's not one of his better works, IMHO.
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