LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

35.98 in. (91.40 cm.) (height) by 17.13 in. (43.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed D. Tanning (lower right)

Exhibited:

New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Dorothea Tanning, 1944, no. 7. San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Contemporary American Paintings, 1945, n.n. Washington, D.C., Caresse Crosby Gallery, Dorothea Tanning, 1945, no. 11. Hollywood, American Contemporary Gallery, Dorothea Tanning: Paintings, 1949, no. 19. New York, Museum of Modern Art (on loan)

Literature:

Howard Devree, "From a Reviewer's Notebook: Definitely Modern," in The New York Times, April 9, 1944. "Shocks, Fun, Fine Painting by Surrealist," in Daily News, Los Angeles, April 9, 1949, illustrated n.p. Joseph Cornell, "Diary Notes, 12/26-7-59," in Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letter and Files, New York & London, 1993, p. 264. Joseph Cornell and the Surrealists in New York (exhibition catalogue), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 2013, illustrated p. 51

Provenance:

Julien Levy Gallery, New York (until 1949). Albert Lewin, Los Angeles (and sold by the estate: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, December 16, 1970, lot 100). Acquired at the above sale.