The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Black-and-white photograph of a person with light skin tone standing in the street, leaning back with their hands on their stomach. Their eyes wrinkle on the edges and their lower lip is pushed up high enough to obscure their upper lip and almost the entirety of their nose. They wear a bow tie and people walk in the street behind them.

The Grimace

1933

Dora Maar

(French, 1907–1997)
France, 20th century
gelatin silver print, ferrotyped
Image: 28.2 x 22.9 cm (11 1/8 x 9 in.); Paper: 28.3 x 22.9 cm (11 1/8 x 9 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.88
© 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Location: Not on view
  • The artist, Paris
    (Galerie 1900-2000, Paris)
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
    2007-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. Reproduced: p. 118, no. 76; mentioned: pp. 223.
    Maar, Dora. Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso et les surréalistes. [Marseille]: Musées de Marseille, 2000. Reproduced: p. 73, no. 44; mentioned: pp. 265.
    Maar, Dora, and Victoria Combalía Dexeus. Dora Maar: Haus der Kunst München, 13. Oktober 2001-6. Januar 2002 ; Musées de Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, 20. Januar-4. Mai 2002 ; Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, L'Hospitalet Barcelona, 15. Mai- 15. Juli 2002. München: Haus der Kunst München, 2001. Reproduced: p. 89, no. 46; mentioned: pp. 321.
    Maar, Dora. Dora Maar: Photographer. Long Island City, NY: Dorsky Gallery, 2004.
    Maar, Dora. Dora Maar, fotógrafa: [exposición] Centre Cultural Bancaixa, enero-marzo 1995. [Valencia]: Bancaja, Obra Social, 1995. Reproduced: p. 83, no. 23; mentioned: pp. 157.
    Combalía Dexeus, Victoria. París y los surrealistas. Bilbao: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2005. Reproduced: p. 174.
    Combalia, Victoria. "Dora Maar, Street Photographer: Barcelona and London." In Dora Maar, 52-76. Eds., Damarice Amao, Amanda Maddox, and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019. Reproduced: p. 73, Plate 80.
  • Dora Maar. Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (organizer) (June 5-July 28, 2019); Tate Modern (November 19, 2019-March 15, 2020).
    Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
    Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso, et les Surréalistes. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (October 13, 2001-January 6, 2002); Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France (February 7-April 30, 2002); Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, L’Hospitalet, Spain (May 21-July 15, 2002).
    Dora Maar, Fotógrafa. Centro Cultura Bancaixi (January 1-March 31, 1995).
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