The Collection of Sybil Shainwald
Dorothea Tanning
Témoins du drame
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Collection of Sybil Shainwald
Dorothea Tanning
(1910 - 2012)
Témoins du drame
signed Dorothea Tanning and dated ‘47 (lower right); signed again (on the stretcher)
oil on linen
12 by 11 ⅛ in.
30.5 by 28.3 cm.
Executed in 1947.
We are grateful to The Dorothea Tanning Foundation for their assistance in cataloguing this work.
Lincoln Kerstein, New York (acquired in 1952)
Philip Bloom, New York (acquired from the estate of the above circa 1996-97)
Estate of Phillip Bloom, New York (acquired by descent from the above)
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in December 2007 by the present owner
New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Recent Paintings by Dorothea Tanning, 1948, no. 7 (titled Dramatis Personae)
New York, Alexandre Iolas Gallery, Dorothea Tanning, 1953
New York, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, The First Decade: Celebrating 10 Years Specializing in 20th Century American Art, 2000, n.n., p. 58, illustrated in color
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Surrealism, 2000-01, n.n., p.23; p. 80, illustrated in color
New York, National Academy Museum and Phoenix Art Museum, Surrealism USA, 2005, no. 116, p. 160, illustrated in color
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Surrealism: Dreams on Canvas, 2007, n.n., p. 54, illustrated in color
Alain Bosquet, La Peinture de Dorothea Tanning, Paris, 1966, p. 33, illustrated
Ken Johnson, "Art in Review: 'The First Decade,'" The New York Times, 4 August 2000, p. E35
Victoria Carruthers, Dorothea Tanning: Transformations, London, 2020, p. 71; p. 73, illustrated in color
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