"second-highest price ever paid for a painting at auction. An anonymous Russian bidder present at the New York auction won the work with a final bid of US$95,216,000, well exceeding the pre-auction US$50 million estimates. The identity of the bidder, who spent more than US$100 million in total, and purchased an 1883 Monet seascape and a 1978 Chagall in addition to the Picasso, was a topic of much speculation. Apparently a novice bidder, though possibly acting as an agent for a more well-known collector, the anonymous buyer may have been unknown at the start of the auction even to Sotheby's"
"officials. As of mid-2007, the ownership of the ""Dora Maar au Chat"" is still unknown to the general public, although rumors have focused on the Georgian mining magnate and former Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina (Boris) Ivanishvili, who sold his Moscow bank a week before the auction for $550 m. ""Dora Maar au Chat"" presents the artist's most mysterious and challenging mistress regally posed three-quarter length in a large wooden chair with a small black cat perched behind her in both an amusing and menacing attitude. The faceted planes of her body and richly layered surface of brushstrokes impart a"
"decorator for Jean Epstein's 1928 film, ""The Fall of the House of Usher"". In the studio, Maar and Kefer worked together mostly on commercial photography for advertisements and fashion magazines. She met the photographer Brassaï with whom she shared the darkroom in the studio. Brassai once said that she had, “bright eyes and an attentive gaze, a disturbing stare at times.” Dora Maar also met Louis-Victor Emmanuel Sougez, a photographer working for advertising, archeology and artistic director of the newspaper ""L'Illustration"", whom she considered a mentor. In 1932, she had an affair with the filmmaker Louis Chavance. Dora Maar frequented"
"Dora Maar Henriette Theodora Markovitch (22 November 1907 – 16 July 1997), known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer, painter, and poet. Henriette Theodora Markovitch was the only daughter of Joseph Markovitch (1875–1969), a Croatian architect who studied in Zagreb, Vienna, and then Paris where he settled in 1896, and of his spouse, Catholic-raised Louise-Julie Voisin (1877–1942), originally from Cognac, France. In 1910, the family left for Buenos Aires where the father obtained several commissions including for the embassy of Austria-Hungary; His achievements earned him the honor of being decorated by Emperor Francis Joseph I, even though he was"
"The Weeping Woman (Rembrandt) Weeping Woman or A Weeping Woman is a 1644 oil on oak panel painting, now in the Detroit Institute of Arts. It almost exactly corresponds to the kneeling woman in Rembrandt's ""The Woman Taken in Adultery"" (National Gallery, London) and is thought to be by one of his students after an autograph original study - Kurt Bauch argued this student was Carel Fabritius, whilst Werner Sumowski felt the strongest candidates were Samuel van Hoogstraten and Nicolaes Maes First recorded in the Holland collection in London, it was auctioned at Christies in London to a Mr Smith"
"Portrait of Oopjen Coppit Portrait of Oopjen Coppit (1611-1689) is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt, painted on the occasion of her marriage to Marten Soolmans in 1634. It is considered a pendant portrait, and portrait of her husband was included in the 2015 sale as part of a joint collaboration between the Louvre and the Rijksmuseum, purchased from the Rothschild family. The paintings were jointly sold for € 160 million. This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1915, who wrote: ""638 MACHTELD VAN DOORN (1605-1646), from 1629 the wife of Martin Daey. Sm. 551."
"Museum in New York City. Portrait of Laura Dianti Portrait of Laura Dianti is a c. 1520–25 painting by Titian, now held in the H. Kisters Collection at Kreuzlingen. It is signed """" and depicts Laura Dianti, lover and later wife of Alfonso I d'Este. Titian painted several portraits of Dianti, perhaps including the ""Woman with a Mirror"", now at the Louvre. In this one, she wears a sumptuous blue dress, jewellery and a diadem. Her right arm runs down the side of her body while her left hand rests on the shoulder of an African page boy. Vasari mentions"
"The Worried Lover The Worried Lover (French - ""L'Amante inquiète"") is a c.1715-1717 painting by Jean Antoine Watteau. A preparatory drawing now entitled ""Two studies of a seated woman"" (private collection) exactly matches the pose of the woman in the painting. Watteau also made an etching showing a woman seated in a very similar pose. Single figures were common in his work and also appear in ""La Finette"", ""L'Indifférent"" and ""The Dreamer"". According to Jean Ferré, the cut roses in the painting are a symbol of ""consumed love"". The painting was originally owned by abbé Haranger, canon of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois in"
"Portrait of Marten Soolmans Portrait of Marten Soolmans (1613-1641) is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt, painted on the occasion of his marriage to Oopjen Coppit in 1634 and in 2015 purchased from the Rothschilds as part of a joint collaboration between the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre. It is considered a pendant portrait, and the portrait of his wife was included in the sale. Together the paintings were sold for 160 million Euro. This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1915, who wrote: ""637 MAERTEN DAEY (1604-after 1650). Sm. 340. ; Bode 303 ; Dut."
"painting was made during the year 1941, when the Nazis were occupying France. In the 1940s, the painting was obtained by Chicago collectors Leigh and Mary Block. They sold the painting in 1963 After that, the painting was never shown until the 21st century. During 2005 and 2006, ""Dora Maar au Chat"", then owned by the Gidwitz family of Chicago, was shown worldwide as part of Sotheby's exhibitions in London, Hong Kong and New York. It came up for sale in an auction of Impressionist/Modern works held at Sotheby's on May 3, 2006 in New York and making it the"
"Jacqueline. She asked me, “where are those famous surrealists?"" and I told her about cafe de la Place Blanche.' Jacqueline then began to frequent the cafe where she would eventually meet André Breton, whom she would later marry. When the workshop ceased its activities, Dora Maar left Paris, alone, for Barcelona and then London, where she photographed the effects of the economic depression following the Wall Street Crash of 1929 in the United States. On her return, and with the help of her father, she opened another workshop at 29 rue d'Astorg, (8th arrondissement of Paris). In 1935 she was"
"The Love Letter (Vermeer) The Love Letter () is a 17th-century genre painting by Jan Vermeer. The painting shows a servant maid handing a letter to a young woman with a cittern. The painting is in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. The tied-up curtain in the foreground creates the impression that the viewer is looking at an intensely private, personal scene. There is also an element of trompe l'oeil as Dutch paintings were often hung with little curtains to conserve them, and the device of painted curtains is seen in other Dutch works of the period. The diagonals on the chequered floor"
"painter. Tragic figurative works, such as the ""Portrait of Eluard"", or ""Self-Portrait"" to ""The Child of 1946"", translate, in dark tones, the pain of post-war years. After years of struggling with depression, Dora Maar confined herself within her own memories. It is between the 1960s and 70s that there was the beginning of a respite when she experimented with abstract formats in shimmering colors. It was in the 1980s, though that the painter expressed herself fully in her many paintings of the Luberon region. Paintings of the landscapes around her house in Ménerbes, showed locations dominated by wind and clouds,"
"and some weekdays to play with his daughter. Maya also modeled for some of his paintings, including ""Maya with Doll"" (1938). Marie-Thérèse became jealous when Picasso fell in love with Dora Maar, a surrealist photographer and model for Picasso, in 1935. Once, she and Maar met accidentally in Picasso's studio when he was painting ""Guernica"". Asked about this in later life, Picasso remarked that he had been quite happy with the situation and that when they demanded that he choose between them, he told them that they would have to fight it out themselves, at which point the two women"
"Portrait of Laura Dianti Portrait of Laura Dianti is a c. 1520–25 painting by Titian, now held in the H. Kisters Collection at Kreuzlingen. It is signed """" and depicts Laura Dianti, lover and later wife of Alfonso I d'Este. Titian painted several portraits of Dianti, perhaps including the ""Woman with a Mirror"", now at the Louvre. In this one, she wears a sumptuous blue dress, jewellery and a diadem. Her right arm runs down the side of her body while her left hand rests on the shoulder of an African page boy. Vasari mentions a portrait of Dianti, which"
"bought by Henri d'Orleans, Duke of Aumale in 1868 during his exile in London. When he returned to France he hung it in the salle Caroline of his château de Chantilly, where it remains as part of the musée Condé collection. The Worried Lover The Worried Lover (French - ""L'Amante inquiète"") is a c.1715-1717 painting by Jean Antoine Watteau. A preparatory drawing now entitled ""Two studies of a seated woman"" (private collection) exactly matches the pose of the woman in the painting. Watteau also made an etching showing a woman seated in a very similar pose. Single figures were common"
"eponymous Amsterdam museum is the third most successful show, and a 1984 exhibition of French Impressionist works is fourth. In 1994, “Picasso and the Weeping Women: The Years of Marie-Therese Walter and Dora Maar” opened to rave reviews and large crowds, drawing more than 153,000 visitors. Since the arrival of current director Michael Govan, about 60% of just over 100 featured temporary exhibitions have been of Modern or contemporary art while the permanent exhibitions feature work dating from antiquity, including pre-Columbian, Assyrian and Egyptian art through contemporary art. More recent exhibits, fousing on popular culture and entertainment, have also been"
"and here they have taken on another, more violent characteristic. In addition to being a rare, three-quarter length portrait of Dora Maar, the present work is also a generous and painterly composition with an extraordinary attention to detail. The artist used an extraordinarily vibrant palette in his rendering of the angles of the chair and the patterning of Maar’s dress. The most embellished and symbolic element of the sitter’s wardrobe in this picture is her hat, Maar’s most famous accessory and signifier of her involvement in the Surrealist movement. Ceremoniously placed atop her head like a crown, it is festooned"
"Woman with a Mirror Woman with a Mirror () is a painting by Titian, dated to c. 1515 and now in the Musée du Louvre. It is known to have been in the Gonzaga family's collection in Mantua from which it was bought by Charles I of England. After Charles' execution, it was sold off and purchased by Louis XIV of France for the Palace of Versailles. Several attempts have been made to identify the main female figure – these have included Titian's lover, Alfonso d'Este's lover Laura Dianti, or Federico Gonzaga's lover Isabella Boschetti. None of these theories fit"
"Love and Pain (painting) Love and Pain is a painting by Edvard Munch, It has also been called Vampire, though not by Munch. Munch painted six different versions of the subject in the period 1893–95; three versions are at the Munch Museum in Oslo, one is at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, one is owned by a private collector and the last one is unaccounted for. He also painted several versions and derivatives in his later career. The painting shows a woman with long flame-red hair kissing a man on the neck, as the couple embrace. Although others have seen"
"The Woman with a Gambling Mania The Woman with Gambling Mania is an 1822 painting by Théodore Géricault. It is a member of a series of ten portraits of people with specific manias done by Géricault between 1820 and 1824, including ""Portrait of a Kleptomaniac"" and ""Insane Woman"". Following the controversy surrounding his ""The Raft of the Medusa"", Géricault fell into a depression. In return for help by psychiatrist Étienne-Jean Georget, Géricault offered him a series of paintings of mental patients, including this one, in a time when the scientific world was curious about the minds of the mentally insane."
"condition after being cut out of its stretcher bars and frame. The restoration took almost a year. Roymans was given a court fine and sentenced to two years in prison, but only served six months in the end. The Love Letter (Vermeer) The Love Letter () is a 17th-century genre painting by Jan Vermeer. The painting shows a servant maid handing a letter to a young woman with a cittern. The painting is in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. The tied-up curtain in the foreground creates the impression that the viewer is looking at an intensely private, personal scene. There is also"
"Memory, the Heart Memory, the Heart, a 1937 painting by Frida Kahlo, depicts the pain and anguish Kahlo experienced during and after an affair between her husband, artist Diego Rivera, and her sister, Cristina Kahlo. The painting is sometimes known by the title Recuerdo (Memory). The oil-on-metal work measures 40 x 28 cm, and is held in the collection of Michel Petitjean in Paris, France. Kahlo portrays herself standing on a beach by the water's edge, one foot on the sand and one in the sea, looking towards the viewer with an expressionless face covered in tears. A metal rod"
"Mary Pinchot Meyer Mary Eno Pinchot Meyer (; October 14, 1920 – October 12, 1964) was an American painter who lived in Washington D.C. Her work is considered part of the Washington Color School and was selected for the Pan American Union Art Exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires. She was married to Central Intelligence Agency official Cord Meyer from 1945–1958, and she became involved romantically with President John F. Kennedy after her divorce from Meyer. Meyer was shot to death on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath on October 12, 1964, three weeks after the"
"A solid example of romanticism, Géricault's portrait of a mental asylum patient attempts to show a specific form of insanity through facial expression. This painting was acquired by the Louvre in 1938. The Woman with a Gambling Mania The Woman with Gambling Mania is an 1822 painting by Théodore Géricault. It is a member of a series of ten portraits of people with specific manias done by Géricault between 1820 and 1824, including ""Portrait of a Kleptomaniac"" and ""Insane Woman"". Following the controversy surrounding his ""The Raft of the Medusa"", Géricault fell into a depression. In return for help by"
"and later that year was recorded as belonging to the London-based collector F.W. Lippmann. In 1916 it was in Oscar Huldschinsky's collection in Berlin. It was sold by the Berlin art dealers Cassirer und Helbing for 68,000 Marks on 10 November 1928 and was recorded in a Berlin private collection in 1937. In 1938 it was owned by the F. Drey Gallery in London and in 1947 by Mrs Hanni Seligman in New York. In 1956 it was sold to its present owner via the art dealer Rosenberg and Stiebel. The Weeping Woman (Rembrandt) Weeping Woman or A Weeping Woman"
"natural causes on April 22, 1969 at his home in Croisy-sur-Eure, in the region of Haute-Normandie in France. His body was cremated and his ashes were interred at Cimetière du Père Lachaise in Paris, France. Dolores died in 1975. Tudor Wilkinson William Tudor Wilkinson (December 18, 1879 – April 22, 1969), known as Tudor Wilkinson, was an American art collector and amateur art dealer who married ""the loveliest showgirl in the world"", gave Hermann Göring a painting in exchange for his wife's freedom from an internment camp, and stored weapons and radio equipment for the French resistance during the Second"
"Portrait of Madame Duvaucey Portrait of Madame Duvaucey is an 1807 oil on canvas painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. It shows Antonia Duvauçey of Nittis, the lover of Charles-Jean-Marie Alquier, then ambassador to the Holy See. Duvaucey is positioned in a flat pictorial space, gazing frontally at the viewer, dressed in lavish clothing and accessories. The portrait is the first female portrait painted during the artist's stay in Rome. ""Portrait of Madame Duvaucey"" is acclaimed for exhibiting her enigmatic charm, and as ""not a portrait that gives pleasure..[but]...a portrait that gives rise to dreams"". Duvaucey stares out directly at the viewer"
"began to wrestle. Picasso described it ""as one of his choicest memories."" Whereas Picasso portrays Dora in his works of art as dark and in pain, as ""The Weeping Woman"", he painted Marie-Thérèse as just the opposite, blonde and bright. In 1940, Marie and Maya moved to Paris, Boulevard Henri IV no 1, since the house at Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre was occupied during World War II. Picasso supported Marie-Thérèse and her child financially, but he never married her. On 20 October 1977, four years after Picasso's death, Marie-Thérèse committed suicide at Juan-les-Pins, South of France. Her daughter Maya had three children."
"in 1725, he returned to Paris in 1727, where he was encouraged to begin working as a portraitist in pastels. His earliest known portrait, of which only an engraving by Langlois of 1731 is testament, was that of Voltaire. In 1737 at the Paris Salon, La Tour exhibited the portraits of ""Madame Boucher"", the wife of the painter François Boucher, and ""l'Auteur qui rit"" or ""Self-Portrait, Laughing"" (musée du Louvre), the first of a splendid series of 150 portraits that served as one of the glories of the Paris Salon for the next 36 years. Nevertheless, the painter Joseph Ducreux"
"Muller & Cie of Amsterdam. Until 1968 it was in the Van Nierop collection, before passing to the Lefevre Gallery in London, from which it was acquired by doctor Gustav Rau for the foundation he was founding in Cologne. In 2011 the musée Courbet put on an exhibition showing the links between the sculptor Auguste Clésinger and Courbet, who were very close friends - these links were especially seen between Clésinger's 1847 marble work ""Woman Bitten by a Serpent"" and Courbet's ""The Bacchante"".. The Bacchante (Courbet) The Bacchante is a painting by Gustave Courbet, produced between 1844 and 1847. The"
"introduced to Pablo Picasso and she became his companion and his muse. She took pictures in his studio at the Grands Augustins and tracked the latter stages of his work, ""Guernica"". She later acted as a model for his piece titled ""Monument à Apollinaire."", a tribute to the late poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Maar's earliest surviving photographs were taken in the early 1920s with a Rolleiflex camera while on a cargo ship going to the Cape Verde Islands. At the beginning of 1930, she set up a photography studio on rue Campagne-Première (14th arrondissement of Paris) with Pierre Kéfer, photographer, and"
"Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit The Pendant portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit are a pair of full-length wedding portraits by Rembrandt. Formerly owned by the Rothschild family, they became joinedly owned by the Louvre Museum and the Rijksmuseum in 2015 after both museums managed to contribute half of the purchase price of €160 million, a record for works by Rembrandt. The portraits were painted by Rembrandt upon the occasion of the wedding of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit in 1634. Although the subjects were painted individually, the portraits have been kept together since their inception."