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...Until March 3; further information here ‘Surrealist Lee Miller’, Heide Museum of Modern Art The extraordinary career of the pioneering photographer Lee Miller is spanned here in 100 images curated by her...
...The show makes the connection by displaying nearby Picasso’s beautiful grisaille painting “Tête de femme” (1942), Dora Maar’s features distorted into the mournful mask of “Weeping Woman”, based on a figure...
...Miller, loaded the gun with blanks and then “would fire at admirers inquiring about the meaning of his paintings, his theory of aesthetics, or anyone daring to insult Cézanne’s memory....
...The course was taught by Dora Billington, an inspired teacher, and the sculptors Eduardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull....
...It was his nanny, Dora, who gave Eve the idea for her first class assignment....
...With Lee Miller, whom he would later marry, Penrose joined Picasso, his lover Dora Maar and the surrealist poet Paul Eluard for “an unforgettable dream of marvels”....
...Dora Maar and Lee Miller each possessed a powerful imagination and a sly surrealistic eye – yet both were long known only as mistresses and muses....
...In May 2006, an anonymous bidder, identified by his accent as Russian, bought Picasso’s 1941 masterpiece “Dora Maar au Chat” at Sotheby’s New York for $95.2m, the second-highest price ever paid for a painting...
...Among the most valuable on offer will be Picasso's “Tête de femme (Dora Maar)”, estimated at £3–£5m ....
...Among the most valuable on offer will be Picasso’s “Tête de femme (Dora Maar)”, estimated at £3–£5m ....
...His fragmented nudes – models included his lovers Kiki de Montparnasse, Lee Miller and Meret Oppenheim – are highlights, their erotic charge here accentuating the sexuality in Duchamp’s work....
...Marriages for both men came, went, went wrong - Penrose survived the rule of Dora Maar, Francoise Gilot, Jacqueline Roque, all of whom more or less controlled access to the master and required exceptionally...
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