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Dorothea Tanning

Open Sesame

Lot Closed

March 23, 02:06 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Dorothea Tanning

1910 - 2012

Open Sesame


signed Dorothea Tanning and dated ’70 (lower right)

pastel on paper

53.3 by 45.7 cm., 21½ by 18in.

Framed: 74 by 58.8cm., 29¼ by 23⅛in.

Executed in 1970.

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
New York, Heather James Fine Arts, The Female Gaze, Women Surrealists in the America and Europe, 2019, illustrated in colour in the catalogue