This is the most comprehensive retrospective of photographer and painter Dora Maar ever held.
Dora Maar photographed by Man Ray (1936)
Brief synopsis
- Maar was a successful fashion and commercial photographer in the early 1930s
- a social documentary photographer in the mid-1930s, as well as being a left-wing political activist, signing manifestos, going on marches
- she developed into a dazzling surrealist photographer in the mid to late-1930s
- Maar was introduced to Picasso in 1935 and was his mistress for nine years, documenting the creation of his 1937 masterpiece Guernica, providing the model for thirty or so many paintings and many drawings on the theme of the Weeping woman, and under his encouragement taking up painting again
- 1944 saw the break-up with Picasso, and the start of years struggling with depression – she never returned to photography
- 1940s to her death in 1997: experiments with a range of painting styles…
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