Maar gilded, captive of the glance of Alicia Dujovne Ortiz

Translated from Spanish (Argentina) by Alex and Nelly Lhermillier

A conversation around wine glass, and mystery of the highsurrealist photographer in Buenos Aires which was the friend of Pablo Picasso.

Born in Buenos Aires, journalist and writer, Alicia Dujovne-Ortiz published, at Grasset Eva Perón (1995) and Woman color tango (1998).


Gilded Maar, Henriette Theodora Markovitch of her true name, wasborn in Paris into 1907 from a Croatian father, architect, and of an enthusiastic catholic mother. After a last austere childhood in Buenos Aires, it turns over to twenty years in its birthplace and imposes itself on it as surrealist photographer.

MUSE of Man Ray, partner of the scenario writer Louis Chavance then of George Battles, it is not long in endorsing an aesthetic circle which revolutionizes the world of art during the inter-war period.
Intellectual tortured, artist with the extreme political conscience, it will become "the woman who cries", the amante of Picasso, delivered to the requirements of the genius which them rupture will return cloîtrée insane, in a solitary mysticism until its death in 1997... Its portraits painted by Picasso will then be sold with the biddings, and its bitterly disputed heritage.

De Cocteau with Lacan, it is a whole time which Alicia Dujovne-Ortiz depicts. It makes ravel a myriad of artists ofavant-garde and great minds, and draws up the portrait of an always mysterious woman-image.

The press review of Radio France
Here this "Maar Gilded, captive of the glance", which one reads with passion. Alicia Dujovne Ortiz has a great talent for the biography of group. Thus one in his book finds all the literary and artistic circle of the inter-war period. (Josyane Savigneau, The World, 21/11/2003)

"Undoubtedly Argentinian and novelist were necessary it to be - in other words, of multiple culture and subtle feather - tothus tell, of the interior, the life of this mysterious woman who was Théodora Markovitch, alias Dora Maar. Without falling into the panel from the biographies called to American where nothing is saved to the reader, neither the first layers nor the last spasms, Alicia Dujovne Ortiz penetrates with smoothness in the intimacy of this strange woman, passed in the history thanks to - or because of, would say rather Alicia Dujovne Ortiz - Picasso, of which it were, a few years during, the mistress and the model." (Michele Gas, Télérama, 19/11/2003)

Grasset editor - Illustrations color - ISBN 2246607914