DOROTHEA TANNING (1910-2012)

Lot 108
28.02.2023 16:00UTC +00:00
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ID 908089
Lot 108 | DOROTHEA TANNING (1910-2012)
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DOROTHEA TANNING (1910-2012)

Visite jaune (Visite éclair)

signed and dated ‘Dorothea Tanning 60’ (lower right); signed again and titled ‘VISITE ECLAIR DOROTHEA TANNING’ (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

34 7/8 x 45 5/8 in. (88.7 x 116 cm.)

Painted in 1960





Provenance

Galerie Le Point Cardinal, Paris.

Mme Vernhes, Paris, by 1966.

Daniel Vernhes, Paris, by descent from the above.

Anonymous sale, Artcurial, Paris, 6 December 2016, lot 42.

Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.

Acquired from the above by the present owners in 2019.



Literature

A. Bosquet, La peinture de Dorothea Tanning, Paris, 1966, p. 101 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Knokke-le-Zoute, Casino Communal, Dorothea Tanning, June - August 1967, no. 50 (titled 'Visite éclair I').

San Francisco, Gallery Wendi Norris, (ism): 80 Years of Nonconformity, July - September 2017.

San Francisco, Gallery Wendi Norris, Threads of Memory: One Thousand Ways of Saying Goodbye, October - November 2017.



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