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Dorothea Tanning
Pour Gustave l'adoré, 1974Oil on canvas119.5 x 92.4 cm, 47 1/8 x 36 3/8 ins, framed© Artists Rights Society, New York, and ADAGP, ParisFurther images
Provenance
The Destina Foundation, New York, USAExhibitions
Dorothea Tanning, Tate Modern, London, 27 February - 9 June 2019 (catalogue)
Dorothea Tanning: Murmurs, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, 11 May - 27 June 2015
Dorothea Tanning: Unknown but Knowable States, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, 10 January - 2 March 2013 cat. no. 22, catalogue
Dorothea Tanning, Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva, 21 November - 21 December 1974, catalogue, cat. no. 19
Literature
Carruthers, Victoria, and Catriona McAra. “Mermaids and Metaphors: Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist Ocean.” Framing the Ocean, 1700 to the Present: Envisaging the Sea as Social Space. Tricia Cusack, ed. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2014, pp. 212, 219-221
Van Proyen, Mark. “San Francisco: Dorothea Tanning.” Art in America Vol. 101, no. 5 (May 2013), p. 175
Paskin, Murray. “Dorothea Tanning’s Transformations on View in Gallery Show.” San Francisco Examiner, February 20, 2013
McAra, Catriona. "Kaleidoscope Eyes: Cytherean Voyages in the Post-Surrealist Practice of Dorothea Tanning." Dorothea Tanning: Unknown but Knowable States. San Francisco: Gallery Wendi Norris, 2013, p. 16
Dorothea Tanning: Unknown but Knowable States. San Francisco: Gallery Wendi Norris, 2013, p. 60
Publications
Carruthers, Victoria. Dorothea Tanning: Transformations. London: Lund Humphries, 2019, cat. 36, illustrated in colour p. 60
Carruthers, Victoria, and Catriona McAra. “Mermaids and Metaphors: Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist Ocean.” Framing the Ocean, 1700 to the Present: Envisaging the Sea as Social Space. Tricia Cusack, ed. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2014, pl. 14 (colour)Dorothea Tanning: Unknown but Knowable States. San Francisco: Gallery Wendi Norris, 2013, p. 61 (colour)
Dorothea Tanning: Numéro Special de XXe Siècle. Paris: Editions XXe Siècle, 1977, p. 85 (black-and-white)
Dorothea Tanning. Exhibition catalogue. Geneva: Galerie Jan Krugier, 1974, plate 19 (black-and-white)
