Amar Gallery was thrilled to support the Museum of Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires with their first major exhibition of artist Dora Maar. Amar Gallery provided all of the works displayed in this monumental exhibition.

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Art critic Celina Chatruc wrote about the exhibition for La Nacion stating: 

The artist who not only overshadowed her talent as a photographer and painter, but also abused her to such an extent that she was committed to a psychiatric hospital.

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This and other experimental works can now be seen at the MACBA museum in Buenos Aires, where Maar—born Henriette Théodora Markovitch—lived from the age of three until she was twenty-three. “ The exhibition aims to focus on Dora, not as a muse who fueled surrealism,” explains its curator, Jonathan Feldman, “but through a very singular photographic body of work, which has a distinctive style in how it captures the strange and the different.

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Of course, Picasso is present, a major figure in the portraits from the period when Maar worked in advertising, fashion, and commercial photography , because the idea was to show "the transformations in his career and his artistic vision ." For example, you can see the cover of Time magazine from February 13, 1939, in which the pioneer of Cubism poses with a tie and his hair swept straight to one side. There is also another photograph taken in 1937 at the Vaste Horizon Hotel, in which he looks at the camera in an intimidating manner.

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That same year, Dora Maar documented the creative process behind Guernica , and one of those photographs is also included in the exhibition. “Which one of the two is leaving?” Marie-Thérèse Walter , mother of his daughter Maya and depicted in one of the most important anti-war testimonies of the 20th century, reportedly asked him. “I told them they would have to settle it between themselves. So they started fighting. It’s one of my favorite memories,” Picasso acknowledged, according to Françoise Gilot, mother of Claude and Paloma , who described him as a “powerful minotaur,” ready to destroy all his women .