Dorothea Tanning

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Description

Dorothea Tanning
Tamerlan (Tamerlane)
Signed Dorothea Tanning and dated 59 (lower right); signed Dorothea Tanning and titled "Tamerlane" (on the reverse)
Oil on canvas
45 3/4 by 35 in.
116.2 by 88.9 cm

Provenance

Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York
Private Collection (acquired in 1962)
Benjamin & Charlotte Katz, Philadelphia (acquired in 1964)
Richard Katz, Los Angeles (by descent from the above)
Kent Fine Art, New York
Private Collection, Spain (acquired from the above in 2007)

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Edouard Loeb & Paris, Galerie Mouradian Vallotton, 1959
New York, Alexandre Iolas Gallery, Dorothea Tanning, 1961
Cologne, Galerie der Spiegel, Dorothea Tanning: Bilder, Gouaches, Zeichnungen, 1957-1963, 1963, no. 14
Berlin, Amerika Haus, Dorothea Tanning: Bilder, Gouaches, Zeichnungen, Collagen, 1964
New York, Kent Gallery, Dorothea Tanning: Insomnias, Paintings from 1954-1965, 2005, no. 5, illustrated in color in the catalogue
New York, Kent Gallery, Summer Show 2012, 2012

Literature

Art News, April, 1961, p. 15
Alain Bosquet, Dorothea Tanning, Paris, 1966, illustrated p. 98
Grace Glueck, "Art in Review: Dorothea Tanning, Insomnias 1955-65" in The New York Times, November 25, 2005, p. E40