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View source →Pablo Picasso, 1939
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
28 7/8 × 23 3/4 in. (73.3 × 60.3 cm)
Style
Wartime modernism
Decade
1930s
The official Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY record identifies Dora Maar in an Armchair as a Pablo Picasso painting, dated 1939, in Oil on canvas. This catalog entry follows the holding institution’s title, material, date, dimensions, and object link rather than inferring undocumented subject matter or artist intent.
Dora Maar in an Armchair is grouped here under Wartime Period for gallery navigation based on the date published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. This period label is interpretive context, not a replacement for the cited primary object record. The institutional credit line is: The Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls Collection, 1998.
2026 Estimated Value
Public collection / market value not asserted
* 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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