LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
51 1?8 x 63 3?4 in. (129.8 x 162 cm.)
Description:
Exhibited:
Paris, Galerie Edouard Loeb and Galerie Mouradian Vallotton, Dorothea Tanning, May-June 1959. Knokke-le-Zoute, Albert Plage Gemeentelijk Casino, Dorothea Tanning, June-August 1967, p. 34, no. 33 (illustrated). Paris, Centre national d'art contemporain, Dorothea Tanning, May-July 1974, p. 76, no. 29 (illustrated). Malmö Konsthall, Dorothea Tanning: Om Konst Kunde Tala, Retrospective, 1940-1993, April-May 1993, p. 135, no. 17 (illustrated, pl. 73). London, Camden Arts Center, Dorothea Tanning, September-November 1993. Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, March-May 2000, no. 30 (illustrated in color). New York, Kent Gallery, Dorothea Tanning: Insomnias, Paintings from 1954-1965, October-December 2005, pp. 13-14, 43, 46, 57 and 69-70, no. 1 (illustrated in color, p. 21). New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, The Long Arm of Coincidence: Selections from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, April-May 2009 (illustrated in color). New York, Kasmin Gallery, Dorothea Tanning: Doesn't the Paint Say it All?, March-April 2022.
Literature:
A. Bosquet, Dorothea Tanning, Paris, 1966, p. 92 (illustrated). “Dorothea Tanning,? Mizue, vol. 803, December 1971, p. 73 (illustrated). G. Plazy, Dorothea Tanning, Paris, 1976, pp. 50-51 (illustrated in color and detail illustrated in color, p. 49). D. Tanning, “Dorothea Her Lights and Shadows (A Scenario),? XXe Siècle, September 1976, p. 99 (illustrated). J.C. Bailly, Dorothea Tanning, New York, 1995, p. 29 (illustrated in color, p. 112). A. Rowley, “Lapses of Taste: On Dorothea Tanning,? Women’s Art Journal, no. 66, 1995, p. 17. M. Sundberg, “The Metamorphosis of Dorothea Tanning: On the Painting Insomnias," Konsthistorisk tidskrift, Journal of Art History, vol. 79, no. 1, March 2010, pp. 24 and 31. V. Carruthers, “Dorothea Tanning and Her Gothic Imagination,? Journal of Surrealism and the Americas, vol. 5, no. 5, 2011, p. 151 (illustrated in color, p. 142). Dorothea Tanning: Unknown but Knowable States, exh. cat., Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, 2013, pp. 10-11 and 76. S. Karam, “Challenging Ideologies: Contrasting Dorothea Tanning’s Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings with Contemporaneous Zoo Designs,? Athanor, vol. XXXII, 2014, p. 103. A. Mahon, ed., Dorothea Tanning: Behind the Door, Another Invisible Door, exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2018, p. 74. M.J. Balsach, “Visions from the Desert: The Metamorphoses of Dorothea Tanning,? BRAC: Barcelona Research Creation, vol. 7, no. 3, October 2019, p. 329 (illustrated in color). V. Carruthers, Dorothea Tanning: Transformations, London, 2020, pp. 116 and 122 (illustrated in color, p. 117).
Provenance:
William and Noma Copley, Longpont (acquired from the artist). Acquired from the above by the late owners, 1959.
