Dora Maar
Who was the "The Weeping Woman" in Picasso's painting?
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.""