Père Ubu will join that work in Washington, the National Gallery announced Friday. The print is a gift from J. Patrick and Patricia A. Kennedy, who have already donated a number of works to the museum.
As is depressingly common, Maar may be better known for her association with a man than for her own work. The fact that the man was Pablo Picasso, to whom she served as a muse, model, and companion (enduring abuse and abandonment along the way) should nonetheless not overshadow her own career as an artist, which continued into the 1980s.
Père Ubu takes its name from Alfred Jarry’s