She wasn't always weeping, in fact Picasso painted her many times, see "woman in hat" series
The subject matter is Dora Maar weeping.
No, she was Dora Maar, a French photographer.
Dora Maar :) xx <3
She was Dora Maar, a skilled photographer, who was Picasso's lover in the late 1930's.
To make a portrait of his mistress, Dora Maar. She often showed strong feelings.
Dora Maar died on 1997-07-16.
Dora Maar au Chat was created in 1941.
Tete de femme - Dora Maar - was created in 1941.
There are many paintings of Dora Maar, as she was Picasso's mistress. They were not all painted in the same place or year.
Pablo Picasso painted Weeping Woman in1937. He used Oil on canvas, size was 60cm x 49cm and it was painted in Paris
The beginning of it all was in the Spanish Civil War. German planes bombed a small town, Guernica, which was not a military target. Picasso wanted to show the suffering and painted his famous 'Guernica''. His mistress, Dora Maar, a photographer, was with him during this work, documenting it all in photos. The painting and all the sketches he made kept haunting him, and he made a series of weeping women with Dora Maar as his model.
Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar, was very hot-tempered, had often spells of anger or sadness. Picasso made several portraits of her.