Dora Maar: From Muse to Artist

Though belatedly rehabilitated by a Centre Pompidou retrospective in 2019, Dora Maar remains an enigmatic artist, better known as Picasso's lover and muse . Her studio contents were sold in Paris in November 1998, the year after her death. There, at the Hôtel Drouot , Dominique de Roquemaurel, a collector fired by a tireless quest for discoveries and little-known artists, acquired two boxes of works at Piasa's sale without even knowing what they contained. As a child, she would watch out for Picasso as he drove down the road from Notre-Dame-de-Vie to Mougins, where she lived, and was of course…