Dora Maar

A retrospective, featuring over 200 works, dedicated to Dora Maar (1907–97) whose provocative photographs and photomontages became celebrated icons of surrealism. Born Henriette Théodora Markovitch, her career spanned more than six decades, and this exhibition shows how Maar’s eye for the unusual also translated to her commercial commissions, social documentary photographs, and paintings – key aspects of her practice which have, until now, remained little known.

Tate Modern’s exhibition opens with the most important examples of these commissioned works related to advertising, revealing Maar’s innovative approach to constructing images through staging, photomontage and collage.