ID 908089
Lot 108 | DOROTHEA TANNING (1910-2012)
Estimate value
£ 160 000 – 240 000
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.
Special Notice
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Post Lot Text
We are grateful to The Dorothea Tanning Foundation for their assistance in cataloguing this work.
| Artist: | Dorothea Tanning (1910 - 2012) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Dorothea Tanning (1910 - 2012) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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