En busca de Dora Maar

Looking for a replacement for her husband's lost Hermès diary, Brigitte Benkemoun buys an old one on eBay. Almost identical to the original, with "the same smooth leather, but redder, softer, and with a shiny patina", it hides inside an address book dating from 1951. Leafing through it, he discovers with great fascination that the names that appear in its twenty pages (in B, Breton, Braque and Balthus; in C, Cocteau; in E, Éluard...) are "the greatest post-war artists arranged alphabetically", who become the common thread of this book. Benkemoun then embarks on an obsessive search and soon learns that the diary belonged to Dora Maar, Picasso's famous Weeping Woman and a brilliant artist in her own right. The author embarks on a two-year journey of discovery to tell the story of a provocative, passionate and enigmatic woman, and the role that each of those figures played in her life. The result is a unique and stunning portrait of the artist and her world through snapshots, party scenes and iconic cafes, and powerful excerpts from her poetry and her poetry written about her.