Representative work by Dora Maar
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Artist

Dora Maar

1907–1997 · French, born Croatia

  • Beaux-Arts de Paris
  • Académie Julian
  • Les Arts décoratifs

Dora Maar established herself as an innovative photographer before her relationship with Pablo Picasso, producing street photography, fashion, advertising and Surrealist photomontage. She documented the making of Guernica and later returned increasingly to painting.

Photography; photomontage; painting

Major Works

  • Portrait of Ubu
  • 29 rue d’Astorg
  • The Years Lie in Wait for You
  • Untitled (Hand Emerging from Shell)
  • Assia
  • Blind Beggar
  • Boy with Arched Back
  • Guernica documentation
  • Père Ubu
  • Fashion photographs

Interviews & Writing

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