Lot 89
  • 89

Dorothea Tanning

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Description

  • Dorothea Tanning
  • Temoins du drame (Witnesses)
  • Signed Dorothea Tanning and dated 47 (lower right)
  • Oil on linen mounted on canvas
  • 12 by 11 in.
  • 30.5 by 28 cm

Provenance

Lincoln Kirstein, New York
Phillip Bloom (acquired from the estate of the above in 1996-97)
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York (until at least 2007)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Recent Paintings by Dorothea Tanning, 1948, no. 7 (titled Dramatis Personae)
New York, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, The First Decade, 2000, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Surrealism, 2000-01, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue
New York, National Academy Museum & Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, Surrealism USA, 2005, n. 116, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Surrealism: Dreams on Canvas, 2007, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Alain Bosquet, Dorothea Tanning, Paris, 1966, illustrated p. 33
Ken Johnson, "Art in Review: 'The First Decade,'" in The New York Times, August 4, 2000