Three years later, Picasso painted another portrait, Woman Dressing Her Hair. Here Dora is grotesque: her ribcage like a hanging carcass of meat, her hands like goat’s hooves wringing her hair, her skin hard and leathery, her body both bulbous and emaciated and her feet outrageously oversized. This frightening creature looks as if she might have been deformed at birth. She’s trapped in a small room with a purple floor and green walls. This is recognisably Dora, but it is more than just a portrait of a strong woman with a stormy temperament. Picasso worked on this painting when Europe was in the frightening turmoil of the Second World War. His paintings in response to the bombing of Guernica had made him an enemy of his native Spain, and Germany had just invaded France where he lived. Woman Dressing Her Hair is clearly not just a picture of Dora, but Dora playing the role of a person trapped, haunted, hunted and made mad by the terror of war and invasion.