Dorothea Tanning - The Virtues of Rebellion New York Thursday, October 20, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Wycken Rise School, Connecticut
    Peter Hirschl, Connecticut (acquired circa 1992)
    Zabriskie Gallery, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in February 2002

  • Exhibited

    New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Dorothea Tanning, April 1 - 29, 1944
    Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University; East Lansing, Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University; Poughkeepsie, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College; Brunswick, Bowdoin College Museum of Art; Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College; Lawrence, Spencer Museum of Art at University of Kansas, The Invisible Revealed: Surrealist Drawings from the Drukier Collection, September 5, 2003 - May 22, 2005;
    Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Surrealism and Magic, August 30, 2014 - April 5, 2015

  • Literature

    “Tanning Falls Short," The Art Digest 18, no. 14, April 15, 1944, p. 10
    Catriona McAra, A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm, London, 2017, pp. 47, 52, 81

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Simplified Botany – The Land

titled “Simplified Botany - The Land” lower left; signed and dated “D. Tanning ‘43” lower right
ink on paper
18 1/2 x 13 3/8 in. (47 x 34 cm)
Executed in 1943.

Price On Request

The Virtues of Rebellion