Pablo Picasso standing under reed screening, Mougins, summer, 1937
(Pablo Picasso debout sous les cannisses, Mougins, été, 1937)
(1937)
Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Measurements
22.0 × 17.2 cm (image) 23.1 × 18.2 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2022
© Dora Maar. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
After being introduced to Pablo Picasso in 1935, Dora Maar became his lover, model and muse until their tumultuous liaison ended in 1943. During their time together, Maar famously documented the creation of the monumental painting Guernica in Picasso’s Paris studio. This portrait captures the artist at ease, bathed in an endlessly echoing lineation of shadows from the above reed screen. The portrait Maar took of Picasso a year later, displayed nearby, shows him seated outside, his eyes glinting with intensity. Both images were taken in Mougins, near Cannes, an area that Picasso returned to every summer.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Mougins, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Accession Number
2022.134
Department
International Photography