Dora Maar

Three delicate photos, made by Dora Maar. An image of Paris in 1930, then a splendid composition - a woman's hand resting over a coquillage, the Earth in the background - and a doll, hanged by a fence. I saw the third one last Sunday, at an exhibition organized at the Washington DC Art Gallery.

Then I looked on the web and I discovered the other two. The photograph with the hand and the coquillage is great - but all three are great, each on its own right.

Her famous love story with Picasso: they met firstly at Les Deux Magots, the rendez-vous of artists and thinkers - she was 29 and spoke Spanish fluently - Picasso was fascinated. She would keep his paintings for herself until her death - she was then 89.