Dora maar

The Centre Pompidou's Dora Maar honors Picasso’s famous muse for the pivotal part she clearly, and often daringly, played in the establishment of the European avant-garde.

A new book is bringing the accomplished photographer out from Picasso's shadow.

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 (1907-1997) was a French artist and poet. At age 19, she attended photography school and studied alongside Henri Cartier-Bresson. In the 1930’s, she became an integral member within the surrealist circles, using photography as a medium to explore the unconscious and fantasy realms. In the darkroom, she examined recurring surrealist motifs (for example

Dora Maar

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.”

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