Dora Maar, the Hidden Woman

Maar was forgotten during the second half of the 20 th century before being rediscovered in the early 1990s, when her Surrealist work began selling, especially thanks to Marcel Fleiss, who headed the 1900-2000 gallery. Now she is gradually emerging from the shadows. “One of the Centre Pompidou’s goals is to restore women artists to their rightful place in art history,” says Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska, the show’s curator and curator of the photography department at the Centre Pompidou-Musée National d'Art Moderne. “In digitising the Dora Maar collection, we realised that a major exhibition should focus on her. That led to this retrospective on the sixth floor, a 1,000 m 2 space seldom devoted to a woman artist.” Nearly 350 works and 80 documents are on display. Most of them are photographs the museum has owned since acquiring the Christian Bouqueret collection in 2011, the rest from 80…