I love the Picasso Museum in Paris and plan to see this exhibit when I'm there in May. I'll read "The Weeping Woman", the story of Picasso and Maar's stormy relationship, before I go.
Their story was singular from the start: Picasso fell for Dora Maar when he saw her in a Left Bank cafe, stabbing a knife into the table between her outstretched fingers. Sometimes, she missed and drew blood.
They were together for eight years. He painted her; she photographed him. A show at the Picasso museum in Paris, which opened yesterday, explores how the two inspired and provoked each other. The show includes nearly 250 works, with some of Maar's portraits of her lover on show for the first time.
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