Dora Maar was a French photographer and painter, best known for being a lover and muse of Pablo Picasso. However, she was famous as a photographer, and also was a painter herself, before she met Picasso. Picasso was attracted by her beauty and self-mutilation (cutting her fingers and the table - he got her bloody gloves and exhibited them on a shelf in his apartment). She spoke Spanish fluently and lived a very secluded, quiet life. Their relationship lasted nearly nine years. On May 3, 2006, one of Picasso's portraits of her, Dora Maar au Chat (Dora Maar with Cat) was auctioned at Sotheby's at a closing price of US$95,216,000, making it the world's second most expensive painting ever sold at auction [1]. - [Wiki]
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