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[Woman and Child in Window, Barcelona]

Dora Maar French
Collaborator Pierre Kéfer French

1932–34

Not on view

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.

[Woman and Child in Window, Barcelona], Dora Maar (French, Paris 1907–1997 Paris), Gelatin silver print — This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

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

Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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