DOROTHEA TANNING (1910 – 2012)
This website aims to serve as an introduction and tribute
to Dorothea Tanning’s extraordinary life and work as both
a visual artist and a poet. It is an ongoing project of
The Dorothea Tanning Foundation, which is dedicated to preserving the artist’s legacy.
Exhibitions
"Surrealism & Duchamp," Moderna Museet, Stockholm, March 27, 2013 - January 5, 2014, including
Don Juan's Breakfast (1972).
Upcoming:
"
The Encyclopedic Palace," 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, June 1 - November 24, 2013, featuring
Self-Portrait (1944) and
The Truth About Comets (1945).
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, will present two works by Dorothea Tanning at Art Basel, June 13-16, 2013.
"Georges Visat, el ojo surrealista Paris 1940-1990,”
Mexico Munae (museo nacional de la estampa), Mexico City, August
8 - November 24, 2013.
"El Surrealismo y el sueño (Surrealism and the Dream)," Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, October 8, 2013 - January 12, 2014.
"Joseph Cornell and the Surrealists in New York," Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon, October 18, 2013 - February 10, 2014.
Publications
Gallery Wendi Norris has published a fully illustrated, 80-page catalogue for the exhibition "Dorothea Tanning: Unknown but Knowable States" with an essay by Catriona McAra, PhD.
Dorothea Tanning on artnet Monographs
The
Dorothea Tanning catalogue is part of artnet.com's Monographs series, a free online educational resource.
