[Woman and Child in Window, Barcelona]

Collaborator Pierre Kéfer French

1932–34

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

When Dora Maar first traveled to Barcelona in 1932 to record the effects of the global economic crisis, she was twenty-five and still finding her footing as a photographer. To sustain her practice, she opened a joint studio with the film designer Pierre Kéfer. Working out of his parents’ villa in a Parisian suburb, he and Maar produced mostly commercial photographs for fashion and advertising—projects that funded Maar’s travel to Spain. With an empathetic eye, she documents a mother and her child peering out of a makeshift shelter. Adapting an avant-garde strategy, she chose a lateral angle to monumentalize her subjects.

Artwork Details

Overview

Exhibition History

Title: [Woman and Child in Window, Barcelona]
Artist: Dora Maar (French, Paris 1907–1997 Paris)
Collaborator: Pierre Kéfer (French, active 1930s)
Date: 1932–34
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 11 1/8 × 8 3/8 in. (28.2 × 21.2 cm)
Framed: 22 × 17 in. (55.9 × 43.2 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Promised Gift of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary
Curatorial Department: Photographs