Dora MAAR (Henriette Théodora MARKOVITCH , dite)

French painter and photographer.

[ PARIS 1907 – PARIS 1997 ]

Domain :

ARTS

Geographical area :

EUROPE

France

Author : Anne REVERSEAU

Under the direction of : Marie-Laure BERNADAC

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 spent her early years in Argentina, where her Croatian-born father worked as an architect. When her family returned to Paris in 1926, she started taking classes at the Académie Julian and studied at the École de Photographie. In the late 1920s she shortened her name to Dora Maar and chose to focus on her photographic work, which was starting to...

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Bibliography

■ With Picasso P., Picasso-Dora Maar, il faisait tellement noir (exhibition catalogue), Baldassari A. (ed.), Paris, Flammarion/Réunion des musées nationaux, 2006.

■ Caws M. A., Dora Maar, With and Witout Picasso, Paris/London, Thames & Hudson, 2000; Dujovne Ortiz A., Dora Maar, prisonnière du regard, Paris, Grasset, 2003.

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