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Double Portrait with Hat

c. 1936–37
(French, 1907–1997)
France, 20th century
gelatin silver print, montage with handwork on negative
Image: 29.8 x 23.8 cm (11 3/4 x 9 3/8 in.)
Gift of David Raymond 2008.172
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Location: not on view
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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 black and white photograph of 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 painted in dark shades.

Double Portrait with Hat

c. 1936–37

Dora Maar

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

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