
She is known mostly for her surrealist images as well as for her detailed documentation of her lover Pablo Picasso’s process of creating Guernica. But before all of that, the French artist Dora Maar had proven herself as a commercial and fashion photographer, fields in which she experimented with avant-garde techniques, and she also liked to walk the streets like a true flàneuse, camera ever at the ready. On view through mid-September at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid are snapshots she took during a visit to Barcelona in the year 1933, displayed with a selection of drawings hardly ever seen heretofore, which reflect very well what was a constant search for new forms of representation.