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PABLO PICASSO, SEATED WOMAN (DORA), 1938

WHO WAS THE SEATED WOMAN?

This is a portrait of Henriette Theodora Markovitch, known as Dora Maar. She first met Picasso in 1935 and the pair soon began a nine-year affair. A former assistant of Man Ray and celebrated photographer in

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