Martin Gayford

To fill a major Tate show requires a huge talent. Dora Maar didn’t have that

Plus: at Victoria Miro, Celia Paul is finally beginning to get the attention she deserves

issue 14 December 2019
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  • Dora Maar

    Tate Modern, until 15 March 2020

  • Peggy Guggenheim and London

    Ordovas, until 14 December

  • Celia Paul

    Victoria Miro, until 20 December

Dora Maar first attracted the attention of Pablo Picasso while playing a rather dangerous game at the celebrated left-bank café Les Deux Magots. She ‘kept driving a small pointed penknife between her fingers into the wood of the table’. From time to time she missed, and a drop of blood appeared on her gloves.

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