Overview
- Signed and dated July 11, 1943, the oil on canvas measures 80 by 60 centimeters and depicts Dora Maar wearing a flowered hat.
- The Administration Picasso confirmed authenticity, matching its entry in the catalogue raisonné that had circulated only in black and white.
- Brassaï’s studio photographs from the 1940s were presented to corroborate the painting’s presence in Picasso’s workspace.
- Acquired in August 1944 by a noted French collector, the work is being sold by his heirs as part of a succession.
- Experts describe a blend of naturalist and cubist traits with unusually bright colors for the Occupation period.