(Women) Artists
(Women) Artists
Property from an Important Private Collection, USA
Dorothea Tanning
The Witch
Lot Closed
May 27, 01:13 PM GMT
Estimate
220,000 - 320,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection, USA
Dorothea Tanning
1910 - 2012
The Witch
signed Dorothea Tanning (lower right)
oil on canvas
45.8 by 61cm., 18 by 24in.
Framed: 58 by 73.5cm., 22 ⅞ by 28 ⅞ in.
Painted in 1950.
We are grateful to The Dorothea Tanning Foundation for their assistance in cataloguing this work.
Please note this lot is subject to an irrevocable bid.
Howard & Muriel Weingrow, New York (until at least 1995)
Kent Fine Art, New York (acquired from the above)
Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2017
Kent Fine Art, New York (acquired from the above)
Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2017
'Review of 'The Witch'', in Dancing Times, October 1950, p. 6
Dorothea Tanning, 'Note Bibliographique', in Dorothea Tanning, Paris, 1966, p. 153
Dorothea Tanning: Between Lives - Works on Paper (exhibition catalogue), Runkel Hue-Williams Gallery, London, 1989, mentioned p. 9
Dorothea Tanning (exhibition catalogue), Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, 1993, mentioned pp. 22 & 23
Dorothea Tanning, Between Lives: An Artist and Her World, New York, 2001. mentioned p. 87
Dorothea Tanning, 'Note Bibliographique', in Dorothea Tanning, Paris, 1966, p. 153
Dorothea Tanning: Between Lives - Works on Paper (exhibition catalogue), Runkel Hue-Williams Gallery, London, 1989, mentioned p. 9
Dorothea Tanning (exhibition catalogue), Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, 1993, mentioned pp. 22 & 23
Dorothea Tanning, Between Lives: An Artist and Her World, New York, 2001. mentioned p. 87