Dora Maar | French photographer and painter
Dora Maar, original name Henrietta Theodora Markovitch (Marković), (born November 22, 1907, Paris, France—died July 16, 1997, Paris), French photographer and Surrealist artist whose career and accomplishments were overshadowed during her lifetime by the details of her affair with Pablo Picasso. Her work was resurrected and reexamined more thoughtfully after her death. Maar, whose mother was French and father was Croatian, spent her childhood in Buenos Aires, where her father was employed as an architect. She returned to Paris in 1926 and studied art at the Union Centrale des Arts Décorati...
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