Dora maar

A new retrospective at London’s Tate Modern is shining a light on the surrealist’s underrepresented work as an experimental photographer and painter

This haunting show, in the cool gallery spaces high above the city that Dora Maar knew so well, makes it clear that she was indeed a star, a leading figure in Surrealist photo-montage of the mid-1930s. Maar’s largest exhibition in France, it contains over 400 of her works, yet, like the model in the banner, she turns away, and hides her face, remaining enigmatic in her work. In Self-Portrait with Fan (1930), she shows only her reflection in a mirror, her serious gaze shrouded by the circles…

The Surrealist photographer Dora Maar (1907-1997) is better known as Picasso’s dark-haired model, muse and companion in the late 1930s than for her astonishing works, although she was an arti…

Brian Dillon on work of the the Surrealist photographer Dora Maar, who had a relationship with the artist Pablo Picasso and documented the painting of “Guernica.”

Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky) ]was an American modernist artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which…

These women were intelligent, charismatic and unconventional – far more than just muses.

Dora Maar

History remembers her as Picasso’s muse but Maar was an unflinching artist who infiltrated the surrealists’ boys club – and helped paint Guernica

Brian Dillon on work of the the Surrealist photographer Dora Maar, who had a relationship with the artist Pablo Picasso and documented the painting of “Guernica.”

Dora Maar. Mannequin in Window. 1935. Gelatin silver print. 9 1/2 × 6" (24.1 × 15.2 cm). Gift of Helen Kornblum in honor of Roxana Marcoci. 57.2020. © 2024 Dora Maar Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photography