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DOROTHEA TANNING | STUDY FOR "LES INFATIGABLES"

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May 18, 04:41 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

DOROTHEA TANNING

(1910 - 2012)

STUDY FOR "LES INFATIGABLES"

Signed Dorothea Tanning (lower right); signed Dorothea Tanning and inscribed Les Infatigables (on the reverse)

Oil on canvas

5½ by 7¼ in. (14 by 18.4 cm)

Framed: 7 by 8½ in. (17.8 by 21.5 cm)

Painted in 1965.

We are grateful to The Dorothea Tanning Foundation for their assistance in cataloguing this work.

Estate of the artist

Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2014

Geneva, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Dorothea Tanning, 1969, no. 28 (dated 1966)

San Francisco, Gallery Wendi Norris, Dorothea Tanning: Unknown but Knowable States, 2013, no. 8, illustrated in color in the catalogue