Dora Maar was the model for Weeping Woman, her fancy headgear perhaps indicating that she is a chic Parisienne, normally indifferent to such matters, who has just been brought face to face with the terrible realities of her time. The woman's strange eyes, the jagged lines like broken glass and the pallor of the lower part of her face, the teardrops doubling as fingernails, the bared teeth and the bitten hankerchief all work to make this one of Picasso's most harrowing images.