Tate Modern hosts the most comprehensive retrospective ever on Dora Maar

London’s Tate Modern is hosting the most comprehensive retrospective devoted to Dora Maar (Paris, 1907 - 1997) ever until March 15, 2020. Known as one of Picasso’s most celebrated muses, she was actually an artist herself, and in the 1930s her provocative photomontages became icons of Surrealism.

Her flair for the unusual was unleashed in her photographs, which included fashion and entertainment; she later turned to painting and found stimulation in poetry, philosophy and religion. Finally, however, he returned to photography.

Throughout her existence she experienced an increasingly heated political climate in Europe and her name was linked to many left-wing posters-a revolutionary gesture for a woman of that era.

The London retrospective traces the artist’s long career in the context of her contemporaneity. Through nine rooms, visitors have the opportunity to learn about her life and artistic production, from her beginnings to her decision to become a photographer, from her political views to her approach to Surrealism and its exponents, from her meeting with Pablo Picasso thanks to whom Dora Maar was depicted in so many of her paintings and thanks to whom the artist reconnected with painting. From the war years to her return to photography, through new landscapes and new experiments.

The exhibition is organized by Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou in Paris and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

For info: tate.org.uk

Image: Dora Maar, Untitled (Hand-Shell), 1934 © Dora Maar

Tate Modern hosts the most comprehensive retrospective ever on Dora Maar

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