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

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

Dora Maar

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

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

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

Explore the artists and artworks of our time at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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.”