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View source →Portrait of Dora Maar Seated
Pablo Picasso, 1937
Technical Details
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
92 × 65 cm (36.2 × 25.6 in)
Style
Expressionism / Cubism
Decade
1930s
About This Work
Portrait of Dora Maar Seated uses a chair-bound pose as the basis for a deliberately fractured image. Facial cues shift between frontal and profile views, while vivid, discordant color and broken contour keep the figure in a state of visual tension. Rather than treating the portrait as a stable likeness, the work makes the act of looking active: the viewer must assemble a figure from displaced features, angular passages, and the pressure of the surrounding color.
Dated 1937, this oil-on-canvas portrait belongs to the same year as Guernica and to a period in which Dora Maar was a central photographic witness to Picasso's studio process. The catalog identifies the Musée National Picasso-Paris as the holding institution and retains its general collection route pending verification of an exact public object page. The work's relationship to Dora Maar is documented through its title and date; claims about a private emotional state are avoided, and a mismatched reproduction has been removed until an exact source-confirmed image is available.
Current Location
Musée National Picasso-Paris, Paris, France
Public Collection — Open to visitors
Visit museum website →Valuation & Provenance
2026 Estimated Value
$30–55 million (est.)
* Estimates are based on comparable auction results and market analysis. Not a formal appraisal.
Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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