Dora Maar
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ArtistFrench, 1907–1997
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Untitled
Date1935–1936
PlaceFrance
MediumGelatin silver print collage with applied color
DimensionsImage (Irregular): 15 11/16 × 11 11/16 in. (39.9 × 29.7 cm)
Sheet (Irregular): 15 11/16 × 11 11/16 in. (39.9 × 29.7 cm)
Mount: 15 3/4 × 11 3/4 in. (40 × 29.8 cm)
Frame: 22 11/16 × 18 11/16 × 1 1/8 in. (57.6 × 47.5 × 2.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number97.83
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionIn
this Surrealist image, Dora Maar unites a Romanesque cloister from Mont St.
Michel (on the Normandy coast of France) and the figure of a dead woman,
identified as a corpse by the crucifix on her chest and the cap on her head,
used for tying closed the mouths of the dead. At the end of the cloister, Maar
added a stormy sky, transforming the arched passageway into a tunnel of death.


 




ProvenanceThe artist; Georges Bataille, 1936, d. 1962; Sylvie Bataille; purchased by The Collection Marvi, Monaco, August 1990; [purchased by Jill Quasha Gallery, New York, 1996]; purchased by MFAH, 1997.
Exhibition History"Modernism in a Century of Change: Cubism and the Heroic Years of Abstraction," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 1997–January 1998.

"Dora Maar - Pablo Picasso: A Dangerous Liaison," Haus der Kunst, Munich, October 12, 2001–January 13, 2002; Centre de la Vielle Charité, Marseille, France, February 7–April 30, 2002.

"Utopia/ Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 11–June 10, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The photograph is not signed or dated.

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