Dora Maar’s Surrealist Photography Eclipses her Reputation as a Modernist Muse

Large-scale retrospective exhibitions at major venues generally serve to cement a leading artist’s place even more firmly in the canon, but they rarely change people’s minds. The recent Andy Warhol exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York or the Joan Miró show at the Grand Palais in Paris, for example, basically gave a certain amount of shading and definition to a well-known body of work, while affirming for a wider audience the artists’ ongoing impor