id: 166333 accession number: 2008.172 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.172 updated: 2023-04-22 12:24:39.680000 Double Portrait with Hat, c. 1936–37. Dora Maar (French, 1907–1997). Gelatin silver print, montage with handwork on negative; image: 29.8 x 23.8 cm (11 3/4 x 9 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of David Raymond 2008.172 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris title: Double Portrait with Hat title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1936–37 creation date earliest: 1936 creation date latest: 1937 current location: creditline: Gift of David Raymond copyright: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris --- culture: France, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print, montage with handwork on negative department: Photography collection: PH - French 20th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Dora Maar (French, 1907–1997) - artist --- measurements: Image: 29.8 x 23.8 cm (11 3/4 x 9 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Dora Maar estate stamp on verso of print: "DM/1999" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso, et les Surréalistes opening date: 2001-10-13T04:00:00 Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso, et les Surréalistes. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (October 13, 2001-January 6, 2002); Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France (February 7-April 30, 2002); Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, L’Hospitalet, Spain (May 21-July 15, 2002). title: Dora Maar: Photographer opening date: 2004-04-25T04:00:00 Dora Maar: Photographer. Dorsky Gallery (April 25-June 28, 2004). title: Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography opening date: 2014-10-19T00:00:00 Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015). title: Dora Maar opening date: 2019-06-05T04:00:00 Dora Maar. Tate Modern (November 19, 2019-March 15, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE The artist's estate, Paris date: footnotes: citations: (PIASA; Drouot Richelieu, Paris, Nov. 19, 1999, no. 47) date: November 19, 1999 footnotes: citations: (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY) date: footnotes: citations: David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2008- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Dora Maar scavenged the two faces from a magazine assignment she did on springtime hats. digital 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. wall description: To produce this complex image, Maar sandwiched together two negatives of the same model, one frontal and one profile, scavenged from a magazine assignment on springtime hats, and painted the background and hat (or decomposing halo?) onto the negative. Softening the emulsion, she scraped and lifted it off, techniques that involve destruction and suggest disintegration. The face evokes Picasso’s depictions of female faces, especially his 1938 paintings of weeping women for which Maar was the model. Although the divided face is not Maar’s, it is tempting to interpret it as a reflection of her emotional state at the time, torn between her career and independence and Picasso’s demands and potent personality. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Baring, Louise. Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso. New York, NY : Rizzoli Interntaional Publications, Inc., 2017. page number: Mentioned p. 168; Reproduced pp. 120-121. url: Hinson, Tom, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography: the David Raymond Collection. Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. page number: Mentioned: p. 26; reproduced: p. 27; reproduced: p. (x); mentioned p. 102; mentioned: pp. 225. url: Maar, Dora. Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso et les surréalistes. Marseille: Musées de Marseille, 2000. page number: Reproduced: p. 214, no. 184; mentioned: pp. 271. url: Victoria Combalía Dexeus. Dora Maar : Haus der Kunst München, 13. Oktober 2001-6. Januar 2002 ; Musées de Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, 20. Januar-4. Mai 2002 ; Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, L’Hospitalet Barcelona, 15. Mai-15. Juli 2002. München: Haus der Kunst München, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 250, no. 176; mentioned: pp. 332. url: Johnson, Annabella. Dora Maar: Photographer. Long Island City, NY: Dorsky Gallery, 2004. page number: Reproduced: pg. 1. url: Beisiegel, Katharina. Picasso: The Artist and His Muses. Black Dog Publishing, London, 2016. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 91. url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 312 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 24 url: Benkemoun, Brigitte. "Discovering Dora Maar," In Gagosian, Fall 2019, pp. 58-61. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 58-61. url: Benkemoun, Brigitte. Discovering Dora Maar." Gagosian, (Fall 2019): 58-61.. page number: Reproduced: p. 59 url: --- IMAGES