Dora Maar
When was Dora Maar in a relationship with Picasso?
The Weeping Woman
Dora Maar was Picasso's mistress from 1936 until 1944. In the course of their relationship, Picasso painted her in a number of guises, some realistic, some benign, others tortured or threatening. Picasso explained:""For me she's the weeping woman. For years I've painted her in tortured forms, not through sadism, and not with pleasure, either; just obeying a vision that forced itself on me. It was the deep reality, not the superficial one. """"Dora, for me, was always a weeping woman... And it's important, because women are suffering machines.""