Dora Maar was a pioneering artist in her own right who documented the rise of Surrealism in Paris
To many, she is La Femme qui Pleure, the weeping woman whose anguish was portrayed in a series of paintings by Pablo Picasso, to whom she was both mistress and muse.
In truth, Dora Maar, the model for the paintings, was an artist in her own right before she met the lover who would cast a long shadow over her life and work.
