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Dorothea Tanning

Daughters

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Dorothea Tanning

1910 - 2012


Daughters

signed Dorothea Tanning (lower right); signed Dorothea Tanning., titled and dated 1983 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

130 by 96.7 cm. 51¼ by 38⅛ in.

Executed in 1983.


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

Estate of the artist

Alison Jacques Gallery, London 

Acquired from the above on 11 July 2012 by the present owner

Michael David Zellman, 300 Years of American Art, vol. II, Seacaucus, 1987, p. 951, illustrated in colour

Laura Cottingham, “Dorothea Tanning,” Flash Art, 1 October 1988, p. 131, illustrated

Roland Hagenberg, “Dorothea Tanning,” Art of Russia and the West, no. 1, March 1989, p. 27, illustrated in colour

Opus International, nos. 123-124, p. 89, illustrated

“Andreas Dotter är Tillbaka i Det Gamla Landet,”  Hallands Nyheter, 17 April 1993, n.p., illustrated

Jean-Christophe Bailly, Dorothea Tanning, New York, 1995, pl. 150, p. 175, illustrated in colour; 396

Gary Duehr, “Dorothea Tanning's late, great art,” Boston Tab, 9-15 March 1999, n.p. (titled My Daughters)

“Dorothea Tanning: Paintings,” Kaleidoscope, no. 22, Fall 2014, n.p., illustrated in colour

Catriona McAra, A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm, London, 2017, no. 3.5, p. 73, illustrated

Lara Feigel, “Dangerous Appetites: The Weird, Wild World of Dorothea Tanning,” The Guardian, 8 February 2019

Victoria Carruthers, Dorothea Tanning: Transformations, London, 2020, no. 167, p. 187, illustrated in color

New York, Kent Fine Art, Eleven Paintings by Dorothea Tanning, 1988, no. 7, p. 21, illustrated in colour

Albany Museum of Art, Projects: Dorothea Tanning, 1989, n.n., n.p., illustrated

Malmö, Konsthall, Dorothea Tanning, 1993, no. 47, p. 99, illustrated in colour

London, Camden Arts Centre, Dorothea Tanning: Works 1942-1992, 1993

Boston University Art Gallery, Dorothea Tanning: Still in the Studio, 1999, no. 7

Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and London, Tate Modern, Dorothea Tanning, 2018-19, p. 181, illustrated in colour; p. 195