Lot 69
  • 69

Dora Maar (1907 - 1997)

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • Dora Maar
  • Le tableau "Guernica" dans l'atelier de Picasso, vers 1937
  • photogrpah on paper
Tirage argentique d'epoque. Au verso, avec tampon 'Dora Maar'.

Provenance

Ancienne collection Walter Nessler

Literature

Anne Baldassari, Picasso e la Fotografia. Lo specchio nero, Florence, Alinari, 1998, ill. pp. 209 et 210/211 (trois variantes);
Dora Maar, Bataille, Picasso et les surréalistes, cat. expo. Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, Publication des Musées de Marseille, 2002, ill. p. 228 (vatiante).

Condition

In good general condition. Printed on stiff Agfa Brovira paper, the print has a warm grey tonality and a matte surface. Silvering is visible along the edges, with some light foxing in the area near the upper edge. The upper left corner is very slightly worn. On the reverse, with remnants of an earlier mounting. The print has obviously been glued to a support earlier, and the reverse shows remants of paper fibres from the card it has been fixed to. The glue is not discoloured.
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Catalogue Note

Cette photographie du tableau Guernica par Picasso a été prise par Dora Maar dans l'atelier de l'artiste au moment de l'achèvement de l'oeuvre ou juste avantque les dernières retouches n'y soient apportées. La petite nature-morte aux pinceaux et aux pots située dans le coin inférieur droit de la photographie indique que le grand maître était encore au travail il y a un instant.
Le tableau a été présenté pour la première fois en 1937 durant l'Exposition Internationale à Paris. Le peintre allemand Walter Nessler, qui s'installa en Angleterre dans les années 1930, visita l'exposition durant sa lune de miel avec sa femme, la fille de l'artiste du mouvement Arts and Crafts C.R. Ashbee. Il a très probablement obtenu cette photographie à cette occasion.