LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

18.15 in. (46.10 cm.) (height) by 15.51 in. (39.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Dorothea Tanning '44' (lower right); titled (along the lower edge)

Exhibited:

St. Louis, City Art Museum, 38th Annual Exhibition, February - March 1945, no. 74 (titled 'A Mr. Radcliffe called today').New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Recent Paintings by Dorothea Tanning, January 1948, no. 14.Knokke-Le Zoute, Casino Communal, XXe Festival belge d'été, Dorothea Tanning, June - August 1967, no. 3, p. 17 (illustrated).Paris, Centre national d'art contemporain, Dorothea Tanning, May - July 1974, no. 6, p. 28 (illustrated).

Literature:

D. Tanning, "Note Bibliographique", in Dorothea Tanning, Paris, 1966, p. 152.P. Waldberg, "Dorothea Tanning et les enfants de la nuit", in Exh. cat., Dorothea Tanning, Brussels, 1967, p. 8. A. Bosquet, La peinture de Dorothea Tanning, Paris, 1966, no. 31, p. 155 (illustrated p. 31; dated 1945).P. Waldberg, Les demeures d'Hypnos, Paris, 1976, pp. 314-318.G. Plazy, Dorothea Tanning, Paris, 1976, p. 13 (illustrated).J. Krichbaum & R. A. Zondergeld, Dictionary of Fantastic Art, London, 1977, p. 209.J. Russell, "Le 'Moi' multiforme de Dorothea Tanning", in Numéro special de XXe Siècle, Paris, 1977, p. 51 (illustrated p. 49).Exh. cat., Dada and Surrealism reviewed, London, 1978, p. 446.D. Tanning, "Some parallels in words and pictures", in Pequod: A journal of contemporary literature and literary criticism, New York, 1989, p. 173.S. Wilson "Between lives", in exh. cat., Dorothea Tanning, Between lives, works on paper, London, 1989, pp. 7-8.J. Russell, "The Several Selves of Dorothea Tanning”, in exh. cat., Dorothea Tanning, Malmö, 1993, pp. 14, 15 (illustrated p. 14).J. C. Bailly & R.C. Morgan, Dorothea Tanning, New York, 1995, p. 56 (illustrated pl. 9).M. A. Caws, “Person: Tanning’s self-portraiture” in The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter, Cambridge, Massachusetts,1997, p. 92.V. Carruthers, “Dorothea Tanning and her gothic imagination”, in Journal of Surrealism and the Americas 5, no. 1, 2011, pp. 151-153 (illustrated fig. 6)K. Conley, “Dorothea Tanning’s Gothic Ghostliness” in Surrealist Ghostliness, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2013, p. 122.

Provenance:

Thomas Fine Howard, New York, by 1948 and until 1983.Acquired by the present owner in October 2006.