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Maar and Oppenheim's (Em)body(ing) Art

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Maar and Oppenheim's (Em)body(ing) Art

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Sabina Stent
Jan 19, 2022
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Maar and Oppenheim's (Em)body(ing) Art

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Dora Maar behind one of her works, in her studio at 6 rue de Savoie, Paris. Photo by Cecil Beaton, 1944.  

I often think about this visceral description of Dora Maar from one of her 1997 obituaries:

Sitting there one evening he [Picasso] saw a young woman peel off her elegant, embroidered gloves, lay her hand on the table with its fingers spread and, like…

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