Gender and art

"Untitled (Hand and Shell)," 1934, by Dora Maar.

Palazzo Fortuny, the former Venetian studio of the artist Mariano Fortuny, hosts an exhibition of women artists that highlights Dora Maar, the Surrealist and Picasso muse.

Maar is joined by three contemporary artists — the Norwegian painter Anne-Karin Furunes, the Japanese glass artist Ritsue Mishima and the Venetian jewelry maker Barbara Paganin. Their work shows alongside “Amazons of Photography,” a display on the Palazzo’s ground floor of works by women photographers from the 1860s to the present day, from the collection of Mario Trevisan. All of the exhibitions will be there through July 14.

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Dora Maar, Picasso debout travaillant à Guernica dans son atelier des Grands-Augustins, 1937.

"Only Dora Maar, the beautiful, enigmatic photographer, was allowed to document the progression of Pablo Picasso's masterpiece, Guernica, which he painted in response to the bombing of the Basque village during the Spanish Civil war in 1937. Maar was 28-years-old and established as an artist in her own right when she met the 54-year-old Picasso in 1936, and became his lover, muse, confidante and artistic companion.

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Dora Maar - Despite Picasso at the Fortuny Museum spotlights the work of the extraordinary artist who captured images of the poor in Paris, endowing them with dignity, and whose mystical Surrealistic photographs earned her a special place among the artists in Paris at the time."

Spring at Pallazo Fortuny

Dora Maar - Despite Picasso

March 8 to July 14, 2014, Pallazo Fortuny, Venice

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