Dora Maar
Le Simulateur

Le Simulateur

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Le Simulateur
Le Simulateur
ArtistFrench, 1907–1997
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Le Simulateur
Date1936
PlaceFrance
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 1/2 × 8 5/8 in. (26.7 × 21.8 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/2 × 8 5/8 in. (26.7 × 21.8 cm)
Mount: 11 7/8 × 9 1/4 in. (30.2 × 23.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1565
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Photomontage—combining and rephotographing images—was a popular technique among Surrealist artists as a way to blur the lines between art and reality. In The Simulator, Dora Maar turned a preexisting photograph of an interior at the Palace of Versailles upside down and combined it with her own image of a child bending backwards. Because Maar carefully maintained a sense of scale suggestive of reality, the work is especially unsettling and dreamlike.



ProvenanceThe artist; Marcel Fleiss; [Sotheby’s New York, October 1992, Lot 287]; [Galerie Stockeregg, Zurich]; purchased by Manfred Heiting, November 16, 1989.
Exhibition History"The Surreal House," Barbican Centre, London, June 10–September 19, 2010.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in black ink, mount verso, upper center: Dora Maar [underlined]
Inscribed in pencil, mount verso, bottom right corner: 54
Signed in black ink, mount verso, upper center: Dora Maar [underlined]

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