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Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012), born in Galesburg, Illinois, largely educated herself by studying artworks in Chicago. In New York she encountered Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art in 1936. Her 1942 self-portrait Birthday marked a decisive stage. She married Max Ernst in 1946 and lived with him in Sedona and later France while continuing to develop an independent imaginative world.
Her early paintings depict unsettling interiors, doors and female figures undergoing ambiguous transformations. Representation later became more fluid, moving between body and space. Tanning extended her investigations to prints, ballet designs and textile sculptures, notably in Hôtel du Pavot, Chambre 202. Returning to the United States after Ernst’s death, she continued painting while devoting increasing attention to poetry, memoirs and fiction.
This profile brings together identity references for 多蘿西婭·坦寧 and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Dobiaschofsky · DognyAuction · Piguet
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Watercolour and pencil
Untitled.
Aquarell und Bleistift
Catalogue period : 2023-05-12
Published result : 2200 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 4500
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Gouache
Harpie
gouache
Date to be documented
Published result : 21211 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
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Gouache
Witch
gouache
Date to be documented
Published result : 21211 CHF
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Medium — source: dessin de Dorothea Tanning ; condition : dessin original gravé sur vélin de Madagascar
Collection Libelles–Fasquelle, dix-sept volumes, dont … et la bête avec un dessin original gravé de Dorothea Tanning
dessin de Dorothea Tanning ; condition : dessin original gravé sur vélin de Madagascar
Catalogue period : 2020-06-19 — 2020-06-29
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Published result : 950 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 250–350
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