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Double Portrait with Hat

c. 1936–37

Dora Maar

(French, 1907–1997)
Culture
France, 20th century
Medium
gelatin silver print, montage with handwork on negative
Measurements
Image: 29.8 x 23.8 cm (11 3/4 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of David Raymond 2008.172
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Dora Maar scavenged the two faces from a magazine assignment she did on springtime hats.

Description

Maar sandwiched two negatives of the same model and painted the background and hat (or is it a decomposing halo?) onto the negative. Softening the emulsion, she scraped and lifted it off, techniques that involve destruction and suggest disintegration. The face evokes depictions of female faces in the art of her lover, Pablo Picasso, especially his 1938 paintings of weeping women for which Maar was the model.
A vertically oriented black-and-white photograph depicts a combination of a woman's face in two different perspectives, the left half of her side profile looking to our left and the right half of her looking forward. Above her face is an oval in dark shades.

Double Portrait with Hat

c. 1936–37

Dora Maar

(French, 1907–1997)
France, 20th century

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