Lot 88
  • 88

Dorothea Tanning

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Dorothea Tanning
  • L'Océan s'éveilla
  • Signed Dorothea Tanning and titled (lower right)
  • Collage, frottage, watercolor, pen and ink and pencil on paper
  • 9 by 7 1/8 in.; 30 by 18 cm
  • Executed in 1962.

Provenance

Le Point Cardinal, Paris
Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Geneva, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Dorothea Tanning, 1969, no. 3, dated 1965 in the exhibition catalogue
New York, Nolan Eckman Gallery, Surrealistic Pillow: An Homage to William Copley, 1996-97, n.n.
Paris, Marion Meyer Contemporain, Approaching Surrealism: Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, 2012, n.n.

Literature

Alain Bosquet, Dorothea Tanning, Paris, 1966, no. 135, listed p. 135 (dated 1965 and titled L'Océan s'éventa)
Editions XXe Siècle, Dorothea Tanning: Numéro Spécial de XXe Siècle, Paris, 1977, illustrated p. 72

Condition

Collage, frottage, pencil, ink and watercolor on paper. Surface in generally good condition, aside from slight lifting of collage elements at center right edge. Verso: Remnants of old hinges, handling creases, some abrasion at edges from removal of old mount.
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