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"The Paris Muse" at the Kingsmead Book Fair

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She’s often remembered as Picasso’s “weeping woman", the muse behind many of Picasso’s famous works of art, but Dora Maar was more than that.

We caught up with Louisa Treger, author of the historical novel, "The Paris Muse", which will be featured at this weekend's Kingsmead Book Fair.

She says it's time for history to remember Dora as a trailblazer, and a ground-breaking photographer and artist in her own right.

HOT 1027's Natasha Thorp takes a look...
20 May English South Africa Entertainment News · Documentary

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