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Blind Street Peddler, Barcelona

1933

Dora Maar

(French, 1907–1997)

France, 20th century

Gelatin silver print

Image: 39.3 x 29.3 cm (15 1/2 x 11 9/16 in.); Mounted: 41.2 x 31.2 cm (16 1/4 x 12 5/16 in.)

Gift of David Raymond 2008.173

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not on view

Description

Vision and its opposite, blindness, were important themes for 20th-century avant-garde artists,especially the Surrealists. Maar’s image demonstrates social concern for those reduced to begging to survive, but she also appreciated the irony and oddity of photographing someone who could not see.

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Written in pencil on verso: "Dora Maar (signed)

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Dora Maar estate stamp on verso of mount: "DM/1998"

Provenance

The artist's estate, Paris

November 20, 1998

(PIASA, Paris, Nov. 20, 1998, no. 83, sold to Galerie Michele Chomette)

(Galerie Michele Chomette, Paris)

David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY

2008-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. Mentioned: p. 101; reproduced: p. 103; Mentioned: pp. 223.

Maar, Dora. Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso et les surréalistes. [Marseille]: Musées de Marseille, 2000. Reproduced: p. 58, no. 34; mentioned: pp. 264.

Maar, Dora, and Victoria Combalía Dexeus. Dora Maar: Haus der Kunst München, 13. Oktober 2001-6. Januar 2002 ; Musées de Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, 20. Januar-4. Mai 2002 ; Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, L'Hospitalet Barcelona, 15. Mai- 15. Juli 2002. München: Haus der Kunst München, 2001. Reproduced: p. 72, no. 35; mentioned: pp. 320.

Maar, Dora. Dora Maar: Photographer. Long Island City, NY: Dorsky Gallery, 2004. Reproduced: pg. 2.

Schaffner, Ingrid, Julien Levy, and Colin Westerbeck. Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Pasadena, Calif: Curatorial Assistance, Inc, 2004. Mentioned: p. 123.

Combalia, Victoria. "Dora Maar, Street Photographer: Barcelona and London." In Dora Maar, 52-76. Eds., Damarice Amao, Amanda Maddox, and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019. Mentioned: p. 54; Reproduced: p. 57, Plate 59.

Maar, Dora, and Antoine Ullmann. Dora Maar. 2019, 11. Reproduced: p. 11

Exhibition history

Dora Maar, Fotógrafa. Centro Cultura Bancaixi (January 1-March 31, 1995).

Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso, et les Surréalistes. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (October 13, 2001-January 6, 2002); Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France (February 7-April 30, 2002); Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, L’Hospitalet, Spain (May 21-July 15, 2002).

Dora Maar: Photographer. Dorsky Gallery (April 25-June 28, 2004).

Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Palmer Museum of Art (September 14-December 5, 2004); McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, MA (January 16-March 27, 2005); Crocker Art Museum, Sacaramento, CA (July 9-September 11, 2005); Portland Museum of Art (January 1-March 19, 2006).

Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).

Dora Maar. Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (organizer) (June 5-July 28, 2019); Tate Modern (November 19, 2019-March 15, 2020).

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