Activist and art dealer Amar Singh is set to reopen Amar Gallery in London. Singh has a track record of championing overlooked artists having been early to show the work of overlooked artists including Lynne Drexler, Alice Baber & Elaine de Kooning in 2018.
The exhibition ‘Dora Maar: Behind the Lens’. Part of the proceeds from the exhibition will support, anti-trafficking organizations in India dedicated to the protection of women and children, Singh confirmed.
The exhibition will feature photographs and photograms exhibited for the first time in London. Dora Maar, who was Picasso’s muse & lover, has long been overshadowed throughout art history.
As a photographer she was a pioneer, admired by the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Man Ray.
Arriving in Paris at the age of 19, Maar studied at the progressive Ecole des
Beaux-Arts, Academy Julian and Ecole de Photographie. Here she refined her
distinctive black and white photographic style. She soon established herself as a
prominent photographer associated with surrealism, exhibiting at the 1936
International Surrealist Exhibition in London, alongside Salvador Dali and Man
Ray, Eileen Agar.
Maar’s work is featured in museum collections worldwide including MoMa, Tate & the Getty.
