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Dorothea Tanning

Katchina and Her Soul

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Dorothea Tanning

1910 - 2012


Katchina and Her Soul

signed Dorothea Tanning and dated ‘51 (lower right)

oil on canvas

60.8 by 20.3 cm. 23⅞ by 8 in.

Executed in 1951.


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


Formerly in the collection of Gloria de Herrera.

Gloria de Herrera, Paris

Kent Fine Art, New York

Marie-Claude Tubiana, Paris

Acquired from the above on 8 July 1991 by the present owner

"Music, The Arts," The Honolulu Advertiser, 6 July 1952, p. 20, illustrated (titled Catchina and Her Soul)

Alain Bosquet, La peinture de Dorothea Tanning, Paris, 1966, p. 60, illustrated

Lothar Pretzell and Wieland Schmied, “KUNSTmonografie Dorothea Tanning: Himmlische und irdische Liebe: Gedanken zum Werk von Dorothea Tanning,” KUNSTmagazin 89, June 1980, p. 24 and 28

Hans Johansson, "Dorothea Tanning," Beckerell, no. 2, April-May 1993, pp. 42-43

Jean-Christophe Bailly, Dorothea Tanning, New York, 1995, pl. 10, p. 57, illustrated in colour; p. 393

Helene Roberts, "Metaphors of the Self in the Paintings of Dorothea Tanning," Visual Resources Association, vol. 23, no. 4, Winter 1996, p. 81

Annette Shandler Levitt, The Genres and Genders of Surrealism, New York, 1999, p. 103

Victoria Carruthers, Dorothea Tanning: Transformations, London, 2020, no. 71, p. 92, illustrated in colour

Honolulu, Academy of Arts, Paintings by Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, 1952

New York, Alexander Iolas Gallery, Dorothea Tanning, 1953, no. 11, n.p.

Galeria de Lima, Surrealismo, 1954, n.n., n.p.

London, Arthur Jeffress Pictures, Dorothea Tanning, 1955, no. 24, n.p.

Knokke-le-Zoute, Casino Communal, XXe Festival Belge D'Été, Dorothea Tanning, 1967, no. 15, n.p.

Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, La Femme et le Surréalisme, 1987-88, no. 2, p. 383, illustrated