Word: picassos
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...George Steer, a reporter for the London Times, filed a story the next day; soon news of the massacre had reached Paris. There, the Spanish painter Picasso was preparing a monumental commission for his native country's pavilion at the 1937 International Exhibition of Arts and Sciences. The outraged artist, never particularly passionate about politics, threw aside his planned work The Studio: the Painter and his Model, and began to create his masterpiece, a monochrome scream of pain and horror...
...Beside him as he worked was a 29-year-old photographer, Dora Maar, herself an artist of some renown and a member of the Surrealist group. She and the 55-year-old Picasso had met 18 months earlier and become lovers; but they also met as artists. "You feel," says the director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Gerard Vaughan, "that of all the women in his life, Picasso treated her as an intellectual equal." There was collaboration and cross-pollination as Picasso absorbed and experimented with Maar's photographic techniques and she embraced painting
...many of the portraits he made during their relationship. But what secures Maar's place in the history of 20th century art is the meticulous attention she paid to the execution of one of its greatest works. Throughout May and June of 1937, exploiting her intimate access to Picasso, Maar photographed the various stages in Guernica's evolution, detailing the revisions, amendments and rearrangement of the painting. In the process she made the first and most significant documentary record of the process of artistic creation. That collection of images is one of the highlights of the NGV's exhibition Picasso...
...years Maar and Picasso spent together spanned the most tumultuous events of the century, and the passion of their liaison reflected them. The show captures it in detail, from courtship?Picasso's scrawling of her name over and over like a lovesick schoolboy, her coy note accompanying a photograph: "I found a portrait of myself and as I seem to remember you asked me for one, I am bringing it to you"? to the darker paintings that hint at its end. Maar was the primary model for the Weeping Woman series, eyes like basins pouring their tears for the misery...
...million Amount paid by cosmetics tycoon Ronald Lauder for Gustav Klimt's 1907 portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer I?the highest price ever paid for a painting $104 million Price paid in 2004 for Picasso's 1905 Boy With a Pipe, the previous record holder