The Easel

Dora Maar: A solo retrospective

Before her relationship with Picasso Maar enjoyed commercial and artistic success as a surrealist-influenced photographer. The famous romance obliterated those early achievements. While now getting recognition, can Maar the artist be disentangled from Maar the muse? Probably not, concedes the curator: “it is simply impossible to represent the professional without the personal – they are intertwined.”