Ambitious, talented, independent and politically committed, Maar was much more than Picasso’s inamorata and carved out a career of stunning variety that took her from advertising and erotica, through street photography, surrealism and landscape painting, to a final intriguing experiment with abstract photography. It’s just a shame that in their anxiety to restore the reputation of forgotten female artists, Tate Modern is reluctant to tell Maar’s story in the context of the men in her life and we learn little about Maar the person and the extraordinary company she kept. The real Dora Maar remains elusive.