Dorothea Tanning
118.3 x 150.2 cm, 46 5/8 x 59 1/8 ins, framed
Provenance
The Destina Foundation, New York, USAExhibitions
Dorothea Tanning: Works 1942-1992, Camden Arts Centre, London, 17 September - 21 November 1993
Dorothea Tanning: Om Konst Kunde Tala (If Art Could Talk), Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden, (retrospective), 3 April - 16 May 1993
Dorothea Tanning, Simms Fine Art Gallery, New Orleans, 11 April - 16 May 1987
Dorothea Tanning: 10 Recent Paintings and a Biography, Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, 16 October - 15 November 1979
Literature
Bodin, Claudia. “Dorothea Tanning: Souverän surreal.” Art Magazine, December 2018, p. 48
McAra, Catriona. A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm. London: Routledge, 2017, p. 46-50, 87, 96
Bailly, Jean-Christophe. “Image Redux: The Art of Dorothea Tanning.” Dorothea Tanning. New York: George Braziller, 1995, p. 39-40
Thomas, King. "Dorothea Tanning." Art Papers, Vol.11, No.4, July/August, 1987, p. 64-65
Publications
McAra, Catriona. A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm. London: Routledge, 2017, p. 47 (detail, black-and-white), plate 3 (colour)
Bailly, Jean Christophe. Dorothea Tanning. New York: George Braziller, 1995, figure 9, p. 40 (black-and-white); plate 144, p. 168 (detail) (colour); and plate 145, p. 169 (colour)
Dorothea Tanning: Works 1942-1992. Brochure. London: Camden Arts Centre, 1993
Dorothea Tanning: Om Konst Kunde Tala (If Art Could Talk). Exhibition catalogue. Malmö: Malmö Konsthall, 1993, cat. no. 38
Oesterreicher-Mollwo, Marianne. Surrealism and Dadaism: Provacative Destruction, the Path within and the Exacerbation of the Problem of a Reconciliation of Art and Life. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1979, p. 93 (colour)
Dorothea Tanning: 10 Recent Paintings and a Biography. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer Gallery, 1979, plate 4 (colour)
Dorothea Tanning: Numero Special de XXe Siècle. Paris: Editions XXe Siècle, 1977, p. 7 (colour)
Carruthers, Victoria. Dorothea Tanning: Transformations. London: Lund Humphries, 2020, cat no. 149, illustrated in colour p. 168