Where Is Weeping Woman? See It at Tate Modern, London

Q: Who is the Weeping Woman?

The model was Dora Maar, Picasso's lover and artistic collaborator. She photographed his work on Guernica. He painted her weeping face obsessively during this period.

Q: How does Weeping Woman relate to Guernica?

Both works respond to the Spanish Civil War's bombing of Guernica. The Weeping Woman extends Guernica's mourning mother figure into an independent study of grief.

Q: What does Weeping Woman depict?

Picasso's she bites a handkerchief, her features dislocated by anguish.The subject was Dora Maar, Picasso's lover and a photographer who documented the creation of Guernica. She became the face of suffering in his anti-war imagery.

Picasso's Weeping Woman from 1937 shows a woman's face fractured by grief, tears streaming down angular planes of yellow, green, and blue. She bites a handkerchief, her features dislocated by anguish.

The subject was Dora Maar, Picasso's lover and a photographer who documented the creation of Guernica. She became the face of suffering in his anti-war imagery. This painting extends themes from Guernica, focusing entirely on maternal grief. The sharp angles and acid colors express pain more powerfully than realistic representation could. It hangs at Tate Modern.

The model was Dora Maar, Picasso's lover and artistic collaborator. She photographed his work on Guernica. He painted her weeping face obsessively during this period.

Both works respond to the Spanish Civil War's bombing of Guernica. The Weeping Woman extends Guernica's mourning mother figure into an independent study of grief.

Picasso's she bites a handkerchief, her features dislocated by anguish.The subject was Dora Maar, Picasso's lover and a photographer who documented the creation of Guernica. She became the face of suffering in his anti-war imagery.

Weeping Woman

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Also at Tate Modern, London

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