AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS AUCTION
By International Autograph Auctions
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Jul 12, 2022
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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Sold for: €420
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€300 - €400
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MAAR DORA: (1907-1997) Her real name being Henriette Theodora Markovitch. French Photographer, Painter and Poet. Dora Maar was one of Pablo Picasso´s muses and his romantic partner, and was depicted in a good number of his paintings such as Portrait of Dora Maar or Dora Maar au Chat. Unusual A.N.S., Dora Maar, one page, folio, 13th February 1957, to Henri Corbiere, in French. Maar responds to three questions written in the hand of a collector to the upper part of the document and responds `Difficiles´, to the first question related to her artistic debut, `Second métier et fortune personnelle´ (“Second job and personal fortune”) to the second question referring to how could she pay her day by day until she made money with her artistic works, and to the last question asking “Which painting made you best known? And which one do you consider your masterpiece?”, Maar answers `I ignore it. I am waiting for it´. VG
