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I couldn't make a portrait of her laughing. For me she's the weeping woman. For years I’ve painted [Dora Maar] in tortured forms, not through sadism, and not with pleasure, either, just obeying a vision that forced itself on me. It was the deep reality, not the superficial one.—Pablo Picasso^1(p122)

Dora Maar (1907-1997), Pablo Picasso's weeping woman (epigraph), collaborated with him in the creation of his masterpiece, Guernica,² his vivid condemnation of war commissioned for the Spanish Pavilion in the 1937 Universal Exposition in Paris to protest bombing of civilians in Spain. Dora (born Henriette Theodora Markovi), a well-known photographer^3-5 and member of the Surrealist nihilist group, photographed Guernica throughout its genesis until it was complete (Figure 1). Her profile is found in the woman in the center who holds the lamp that draws attention to the horror that is unfolding. She contributed to the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

James C. Harris, MD

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