LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

47.80 in. (121.40 cm.) (height) by 35.91 in. (91.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Dorothea Tanning 45-46' (lower right)

Exhibited:

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. and Washington, D.C., The American Federation of Arts, Bel Ami International Competition Portraying the Temptation of St. Anthony, September 1946, p. 28 (illustrated and illustrated again in situ, p. 29). Washington, D.C., Caresse Crosby Gallery, The Temptation of St. Anthony, October 1947. Tucson, University of Arizona Museum of Art, The Sedona Collection, October 1958-September 1959. Museen der Stadt Köln, Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, May-August 1981, p. 110, no. 289 (illustrated; illustrated again in situ, p. 381).

Literature:

H. Janis, “Artists in Competition: Eleven Distinguished Artists Compete in a Struggle with the Temptations of St. Anthony," Arts & Architecture, vol. 63, April 1946, p. 55 (illustrated, p. 33). L. Lerman, "Hollywood: Art," Harper’s Bazaar, April 1946, p. 145 (illustrated). “Tempting Women,” Newsweek, September 1946, p. 92 (illustrated). J. Seznec, “The Temptation of St. Anthony,” Magazine of Art, vol. 40, March 1947, p. 90 (illustrated). J. Marcel, Histoire de la Peinture Surréaliste, Paris, 1959, pp. 322-323. P. Waldberg, “Dorothea Tanning et Les Enfants de La Nuit,” Dorothea Tanning, exh. cat, Casino Communal, Knokke, 1967, p. 12. U. Schneede, Surrealism, New York, 1973, p. 102. P. Waldberg, “Dorothea Tanning: La Mémoire Ensorcelée," Les Demeures d’Hypnos, Paris, 1976, p. 321. D. Tanning, Between Lives: An Artist and Her World, New York, 2001, p. 157. C. Wistar, La Salle University Art Museum: Guide to the Collection, Philadelphia, 2002, p. 105 (illustrated). M.-Y. Moriuchi, "Space, Place and Gender in the Art of Dorothea Tanning," Art and Social Change: Essays on the Collection of La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, 2016, pp. 166-169 (illustrated in color, p. 162, fig. 9.1).

Provenance:

Galerie André-François Petit, Paris. Ira and Tonian Genstein, Pennsylvania (by 1981). Elizabeth Gettinger. Tonian and Joseph Volk, Pennsylvania (by descent from the above). Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1985.