About
Dora Maar, born Henriette Théodora Markovitch in Paris in 1907, grew up in Buenos Aires before returning to Paris to study art. Becoming a professional photographer in the 1930s, she created iconic Surrealist photomontages and documented the creation of Picasso's Guernica. Her intense relationship with Picasso (1936-1945) marked her life, but her independent work was rediscovered in posthumous retrospectives. She died in Paris in 1997.
* 1907-11-22 — † 1997-07-16
Major works
- Portrait of Ubu (1936)photograph
- Shell-Hand (1934)photograph
- 29, rue d'Astorg (1936)photograph
Key milestones
- 1937Documented the creation of Picasso's Guernica in eight stages, published in Cahiers d'Art.
- 2004The Centre Pompidou acquired her studio collection, comprising approximately 1,890 negatives and 280 contact prints.
- 2019Major posthumous retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Themes
surrealismstreet photographyfashion and advertisingartist and muse relationshipidentity and transformation
Sources: getty.edu · tate.org.uk · centrepompidou.fr