Dora maar

Dora Maar

#womenshistorymonth Highly regarded as an influential Surrealist photographer in the 1930s, #DoraMaar was friends with Brassaï, Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and André Breton, the charismatic leader of the Surrealists. When Maar met Picasso in the mid-1930s, she became the most influential of his many muses. During the ten years they were together, she abandoned her career as an acclaimed professional photographer and instead photographed Picasso, including her famous series of him painting…

Dora Maar’s “Double Portrait,” 1930s, made with double exposure photograhy.

Dora Maar is mostly remembered as Picasso’s muse and lover, but his portrait of her as the Weeping Woman, bordering on madness, detracts from her singular work as a prominent photographer of the surrealist movement. Henriette Théodora Markovitch was born to a French mother and...

The erotic, the exaggerated and the elegant are interwoven in all the accounts of Dora Maar’s meeting with Picasso in 1936...

Maar's photographic experiments reject the pretense of naturalism in straightforward photography and attempt to achieve something much deeper than resemblance.

No matter what you touch and you wish to know about, you end up in a sea of mystery. You see there’s no beginning or end, you can go back as far as you want, forward as far as you want, but you never got to it, it’s like the essence, it’s that right, it remains. This is the greatest damn thing about the universe. That we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can’t grasp it. And it’s meant to be that way, do y’know. And there’s where our reverence should come in.

Dora Maar

Best known as Picasso’s model, she is revealed in a new show as a significant artist in her own right.

Surrealism, erotica, photojournalism and acid: in this beautifully curated show, Dora Maar’s creativity far outweighs her relationship with Picasso

MAN RAY (1890-1976), Dora MAAR (1907-1997), and Paul ELUARD (as 'Didier Desroches'; 1895-1952). Le Temps déborde. Paris: Cahiers d'Arts, 1947. 4° (247 x 185mm). Frontispiece and 10 illustrations after photographs by Man Ray and Dora Maar. Original printed wrappers (small chips at spine ends); in early, possibly contemporary glassine (chipped at the spine, browned); blue morocco clamshell case, unsigned but by Cambras, and blue cloth chemise.

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…

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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. © 2025 Dora Maar Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photography

‘Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography’ at the Cleveland Museum of Art shows that surrealism could be playful, or obscene, or exquisitely beautiful.