Dora Maar

Toronto, Canada based Shelley Adler attended the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University, Canada and a Master of Fine Arts from Boston University, USA. Adler has been active in her career for over 25 years and is represented by Kostuik Gallery as of May 2026. Her work is held in many prominent collections and has been exhibited internationally including in Berlin, Miami and New York.

Dora Maar was a pioneering French Surrealist photographer and painter. She was the muse for Picasso’s “Weeping Woman, 1937” painting. Maar met Picasso in 1935 and they were partners until 1943. During that time, she introduced Picasso to new artistic techniques. When Picasso painted his anti-war masterpiece Guernica, Maar served as the official photographer, documenting the painting’s evolution step-by-step in her studio.