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

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  • Provenance

    Kent Fine Art, New York
    Peter R. Morris, Chicago
    Francis M. Nauman Fine Art LLC, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in March 2011

  • Exhibited

    New York, Alexandre Iolas Gallery, Dorothea Tanning, January 14 - 31, 1953, no. 10
    Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, La Femme et le Surréalisme, November 21, 1987 - February 28, 1988
    Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Dorothea Tanning. Behind the Door, Another Invisible Door, October 3, 2018 – January 7, 2019, p. 193 (illustrated, p. 140); then travelled as London, Tate Modern, Dorothea Tanning, February 27 – June 9, 2019, p. 193 (illustrated, p. 140)

  • Literature

    Jean Christophe Bailey, Richard Howard and Robert C. Morgan, Dorothea Tanning, New York, 1995, pl. 20, pp. 20, 393 (illustrated, p. 65)
    Annette Shandler Levitt, "Women’s Work: The Transformations of Leonor Fini and Dorothea Tanning," The Genres and Genders of Surrealism, New York, 1999, p. 94
    Kirsten Strom, The Animal Surreal: The Rose of Darwin, Animals, and Evolution in Surrealism, London, 2017, pp. 41-42
    Victoria Caruthers, Dorothea Tanning: Transformations, London, 2020, no. 79, p. 99 (illustrated)

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La Truite au bleu (Poached Trout)

signed and dated "Dorothea Tanning '52" lower right; signed, titled, and dated "LA TRUITE AU BLEU Dorothea Tanning '52" on the reverse
oil on canvas
16 x 22 in. (40.6 x 55.9 cm)
Painted in 1952.

Price On Request

The Virtues of Rebellion