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Dorothea Tanning

Simplified Botany - The Sea

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Dorothea Tanning

1910 - 2012


Simplified Botany - The Sea

signed D. Tanning and dated 43 (lower right); titled (lower left)

pen and ink and pencil on board

50.6 by 38.1 cm. 19⅞ by 15 in.

Executed in 1943.


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

Timothy Baum, New York (acquired directly from the artist)

Acquired from the above on 2 July 1991 by the present owner

Margaret Breuning, "Tanning Falls Short,” The Art Digest, vol. 18, no. 14, 15 April 1944, p. 10 (titled Simplified Botany)

New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Dorothea Tanning, 1944

New York, Arnold Herstand and Company, Surrealism: Works on Paper from De Chirico to Pollock, 1984