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"Picasso: Life with Dora Maar" is unique in this ongoing battle to bring Picasso into our collective and growing awareness of his work.

Dora Maar was one of the women that really was IN Picasso's life. Maar was a painter and photographer and, thanks to her foresight, she photographed the painting of "Guernica," one of Picasso's masterworks. She captured the main stages of this obra, ouvre, as it unfolded under Picasso's brushstrokes. Lover and documentarian of Picasso, this new book puts her at a higher and different level in Picasso's life -- as if that's the only way to measure one's life, in relation to another's accomplishments. She was a gifted artist who for a while put up with Picasso.

The uniquenes of "Picasso: Life with Dora Maar"? This book documents Dora Maar's apartment, as it re-tells with refreshing insight and story Picasso's life with her.

After Maar died, a team went into her apartment to photograph its contents undisturbed. Photographs, Picasso graffitti on the walls, old newspaper clippings, her own paintings, Picasso's blood on a scrap of paper that Maar kept as a keepsake, negatives of undeveloped photographs, a living palimpsest of a woman who once loved Picasso and went into her own obscurity alive with her own passions.

"Picasso: Life with Dora Maar" IS an art-book, an artist's book, beautifully designed in a large format. The book contains laid-in letters, notes, art, photographs of Maar's apartment and Maar's photographs. This book lets you wander in Maar's apartment, almost unimpeded, lifting up books, notes, photographs and all kinds of odds and ends that landed in her apartment. You are able to take your time; however, I did get that eerie feeling of being an uninvited guest, a voyeur of sorts, a privileged one at that.

"Picasso: Life with Dora Maar" brings justice to Dora Maar's life with Picasso and elevates her in her own right, leaving Picasso in his place.]]>