Subject Matter

• The Weeping Woman


  A 'postscript to Picasso's famous painting 'Guernica' (1937)
• Guernica was a Spanish town that was bombed by the Nazis in 1937
• The brutal slaughter of the innocent people of Guernica affected Picasso greatly and he painted a massive mural in response
• A weeping woman appears in Guernica and Picasso created numerous studies of this character while working on the painting
• Picasso's muse


  Dora Maar
• Picasso used Dora Maar as the model for the Weeping Woman
• Picasso became so obsessed by the figure of the weeping woman that he continued to paint her even after the large mural was completed