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The paintings of Dora Maar (Henriette Theodora Markovitch, 1907-1997) are one of the great invisible myths of twentieth-century art.
Partly unveiled at the major retrospective jointly organized in 2018-2019 by the Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou (Paris) and the Getty Museum (Los Angeles), they remained out of sight during her lifetime, before being ruthlessly dispersed after her death, without any direct heirs.
Before becoming a famous surrealist photographer in 1934, Maar had studied painting at the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and then in the studio of the cubist André …