For the better part of her life and decades after her death, the establishment relegated Dora Maar (1907-1997) to the realm of mistress, model and muse. In fact, she was a revolutionary artist in her own right – and a new travelling museum exhibition, Dora Maar, wants to right these historical wrongs once and for all.
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Born Henriette Theodora Markovitch, the French photographer, painter and poet took on her illustrious pseudonym while studying art in Paris during the 1920s. She opened a commercial studio at the age of 25, where she produced provocative photographs for glossy magazines, books and fashion houses, while exhibiting alongside contemporaries including Man Ray and Salvador Dalí.
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“Dora Maar’s career spanned much of the 20th century, and was really characterised by innovation, experimentation and reinvention,” says Emma Jones, the show’s curatorial assistant.
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