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Property from a Private Swiss Collection

Dorothea Tanning

Le Balcon

Lot Closed

June 30, 11:54 AM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Swiss Collection

Dorothea Tanning

1910 - 2012

Le Balcon


signed Dorothea Tanning and dated 54 (lower right)

oil on canvas

90 by 20.7cm., 35⅜ by 8⅛in.

Framed: 91.3 by 22.1cm., 36 by 8¾in.

Painted in 1954.


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

Dr. Mario Tazzoli, Turin
The Spence Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Timothy Baum, New York
Marie-Claude Tubiana, Paris
Private Collection, Geneva (acquired circa 1980)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Jean Christophe Bailly, Dorothea Tanning, New York, 1995, no. 41, illustrated p. 80