Question: When was Dora Maar au Char created?
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Picasso painted several portraits of his lover Dora Maar in which her face is distorted in a manner similar to Lichtenstein's painting.
Such portraits were an expressionist development of the fragmented forms of his earlier Cubist works.
A 1941 Picasso of Maar entitled "Dora Maar au Chat" sold at auction for $95,216,000 in 2006.
Lichtenstein specifically used the 1939-40 portrait of Maar in the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection as the template for "Woman with Flowered Hat".
Neumann himself had sent a reproduction of the portrait to Lichtenstein after seeing one of Lichtenstein's earlier reworkings of a Picasso painting.
Lichtenstein painted "Woman with Flowered Hat" when he was pastiching various types of sources, including commercial illustrations, comic imagery and modernist masterpieces.
The masterpieces represented what could have been dubbed the "canon" of art and was thought of as "high art," while the "low-art" subject matter included comic strip images.
His masterworks sources included the likes of Cézanne, Mondrian and Picasso.
During this time in his career, Lichtenstein noted that "the things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire."
The painting is one of four variations on Picassos that Lichtenstein created during 1962 and 1963. 
Dora Maar au Chat ("Dora Maar with Cat") is a 1941 painting by Pablo Picasso.
It depicts Dora Maar, the painter's lover, seated on a chair with a small cat perched on her shoulders.
This work is one of the world's most expensive paintings.
On 3 May 2006, one of Picasso's portraits of her, "Dora Maar au Chat" ("Dora Maar with Cat") was auctioned at Sotheby's at a closing price of $95,216,000.
(USD) making it the world's second most expensive painting ever sold at auction [http://www.shareholder.com/bid/downloads/news/20060503-195293.pdf].
The winning bidder chose to remain anonymous; however, it was later revealed that he was bidding on behalf of a Russian buyer.
Two Picasso art works depicting Maar were stolen in France in 1999.
First, an oil on canvas, "Dora Maar", was stolen from a boat on the French Riviera.
The boat's crew was arrested and Lloyds offered a €540,000 Euro reward.
The painting is currently registered with the FBI's National Stolen Art File[http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/arttheft/noticerecov.htm].
The second stolen "Dora Maar" is a bronze sculpture representing her face.
It was taken from a public square in Paris on 1 April 1999.
Currently, The Brown Foundation Fellows Program based in Dora Maar's former home in Menerbes, France, provides residencies of one to three months for mid-career professionals in the arts and humanities to concentrate on their fields of expertise. 
The canvas (50 ½ by 37 ½ inches / 128.3 cm by 95.3 cm) was one of many portraits of Dora Maar painted by Pablo Picasso over their nearly decade-long relationship.
Picasso fell in love with the 29-year old Maar at the age of 55 and soon began living with her.
This painting was done during the year 1941, when the Nazis were occupying France.
In the 1940s, the painting was obtained by Chicago collectors Leigh and Mary Block.
They sold the painting in 1963 After that, the painting was never shown until the 21st century.
During 2005 and 2006, "Dora Maar au Chat", then owned by the Gidwitz family of Chicago, was shown worldwide as part of Sotheby's exhibitions in London, Hong Kong and New York.
It came up for sale in an auction of Impressionist/Modern works held at Sotheby's on May 3, 2006 in New York and making it the second-highest price ever paid for a painting at auction.
An anonymous Russian bidder present at the New York auction won the work with a final bid of US$95,216,000, well exceeding the pre-auction US$50 million estimates.
The identity of the bidder, who spent more than US$100 million in total, and purchased an 1883 Monet seascape and a 1978 Chagall in addition to the Picasso, was a topic of much speculation.
Apparently a novice bidder, though possibly acting as an agent for a more well-known collector, the anonymous buyer may have been unknown at the start of the auction even to Sotheby's officials.
As of mid-2007, the ownership of the "Dora Maar au Chat" is still unknown to the general public, although rumors have focused on the Georgian mining magnate and current Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina (Boris) Ivanishvili, who sold his Moscow bank a week before the auction for $550 m. 
Dora Maar (November 22, 1907 – July 16, 1997) was a French photographer, poet and painter, best known for being a lover of Pablo Picasso.