From 19 Jan To 10 Apr 2022
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI / ANDRÉ BRETON. Surrealist friendships
Paris, France
Dora Maar
Photo: Man Ray
Fifth screening of the documentary film programme dedicated to Surrealist artists and writers
Dora Maar was a photographer, a member of the Surrealist group, an activist and a painter who enjoyed unquestionable recognition.
After growing up in Argentina, she moved to Paris in 1926 and studied at the académie Julian, at the École de photographie and the UCAD. At the end of the 1920s, she changed her name to Dora Maar and devoted herself to photography. She made portraits, advertisements, fashion photographs and erotic photographs. A friend of Jacqueline Lamba and André Breton, in the 1930s she became a member of the Surrealist group and produced numerous photographic collages with a "disturbing strangeness". She became the lover of Pablo Picasso in 1936. After the war she lived in seclusion between Ménerbes and Paris, devoting herself to painting.
On the occasion of the exhibition "Alberto Giacometti / André Breton, Surrealist friendships", the Institut Giacometti proposes, in partnership with the Association Atelier André Breton and the Collection Phares, a programme of documentary films devoted to surrealist artists and writers: Jacqueline Lamba, Max Ernst, Claude Cahun, Victor Brauner, Dora Maar, Yves Tanguy and André Breton.
Tuesday 15 March at 6:30 pm
Giacometti Lab, 9 rue Victor Schœlcher 75014 Paris
Free upon reservation.
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