The Voraciousness and Oddity of Dora Maar’s Pictures

DORA MAAR IN THE NEW YORKER

“Portrait of Ubu,” which was widely circulated as a Surrealist postcard, is one of almost five hundred works in a new Dora Maar exhibition at the Centre Pompidou. (The show opens in Paris on June 5th, and it will travel to Tate Modern in November, 2019, and to the Getty Museum in April, 2020.) But Maar’s work did not begin or end with Surrealism, nor with queasy repurposings of found objects and images

21 May 2019