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Portrait of Ubu

photomontage by Maar

Also known as: “Père Ubu”

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In Dora Maar
Portrait of Ubu (1936; also called Père Ubu), a monstrous close-up image by Maar of what may be an armadillo fetus (she would never confirm), became an icon of the movement.
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