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Dora Maar

Nusch Éluard

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June 26, 11:59 AM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Dora Maar

1907 – 1997


Nusch Éluard

the photographer's estate stamp (on the reverse of the flush-mount)

gelatin silver print

29.3 by 23.3 cm. 11½ by 9⅛ in.

Framed: 53.3 by 45.7 cm. 21 by 18 in.

Executed circa 1935.

Estate of the photographer

Piasa, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Les Photographies de Dora Maar, 20 November 1998, lot 151 (consigned by the above)

The Buhl Collection, New York (acquired from the above through Nathalie Karg, Ltd.)

Sotheby's, New York, A Show of Hands: Photographs from the Collection of Henry Buhl, 12 December 2012, lot 28 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Essen, Folkwang Museum; St. Petersburg, Russian Museum and Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, 2004-07, pp. 84 and 230, illustrated

Palm Beach Photographic Centre, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, 2011

Middletown, Delaware, Warner Gallery at St. Andrew's School, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, 2011

Mary Ann Caws, Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar, New York, 2000, p. 64, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Manchester Art Gallery, Angels of Anarchy. Women Artists and Surrealism, 2009-10, p. 148, illustrated

Louise Baring, Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso, London, 2017, illustrated on the cover (detail)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou; London, Tate Modern and Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, Dora Maar, 2019-20, p. 34 illustrated (variant cropping) and p. 140, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou; Corps à Corps. Histoire(s) de la photographie, 2023-24, p. 54, illustrated