The National Archives of Catalonia acquires 35 unpublished images of the photographer Dora Maar

The National Archives of Catalonia has acquired, for a price of 24,700 euros, a total of 16 lots with 35 original images by the photographer Dora Maar, during the auction of 750 pieces of her work, held on the 27th and June 28 at the Artcurial hall in Paris. Until now, the photographs were in the hands of the artist's heirs.

The set acquired corresponds to prints from her trip to the Catalan capital and also to Tossa de Mar, which she visited in 1933, and portrays as protagonists, with the marked personality of the author in her "street photography", scenes daily lives of children, beggars, street vendors and musicians, as well as fishermen and net men.

The acquisition includes for each piece the original 6 x 6 cellulose nitrate negatives, with the original envelopes and 5.5 x 5.3 contacts, as well as a current numbered copy on baryta paper in 40 x format 30

Henriette Theodora Markovitch, known as Dora Maar (Tours, 1907 - Paris, 1997) was a versatile intellectual and avant-garde plastic artist, painter, illustrator, sculptor and French photographer of Croatian origin. Raised in Argentina and trained in the shadow of Henri Cartier-Bresson, she was an icon of surrealism. As a photographer she is considered one of the most original authors of her time, experimental and a pioneer of new expressive forms in her aesthetic and social outlook.