About the artwork:
The source of Dora’s tears was not Franco, but the artist’s traumatic manipulation of her. Picasso’s obsession with her had intensified, but to judge by the artist’s portrayals of her, it precluded tenderness.
John Richardson, L’Amour Fou: Picasso and Marie-Thérèse
Pour the unhappiness out
From your too bitter heart,
Which grieving will not sweeten…
Wallace Stevens, Another Weeping Woman
There’s nothing where he used to lie
Our conversation has run dry
That’s what’s going on
Nothing’s fine, I’m torn
Natalia Imbruglia, Torn
Dora m’a toujours fait peur.
Picasso
Y volver, volver, volver
Chavela Vargas, Volver, Volver
About the artist:
"Painting is for me a way into things I do not understand. These include figures like Don Juan and Narcissus, the walls of the Scrovegni Chapel, the work of Wallace Stevens, the songwriter Adrianne Lenker, the fact of being an artist, Picasso, memories and dreams, organic materials and their suggestive capacities, the problem of meaning-making, photography, languages I cannot speak, ancient texts that survive in fragments, inevitability, accident, uncertainty, and time."
Daniel Licht (b. 1996, Los Angeles) lives and works in New York. Recent exhibitions include Jarvis Art, New York; Ninetto, Athens; and Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles.
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"The source of Dora’s tears was not Franco, but the artist’s traumatic manipulation of her. Picasso’s obsession with her had intensified, but to judge by the artist’s portrayals of her, it precluded tenderness." John Richardson, L’Amour Fou: Picasso and Marie-ThérèseMore
- Unframed
- Signed
3:00 PM, May 28, 2026.
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