 Birthday, 1942 MORE INFO |
 Insomnies (Insomnias), 1957 MORE INFO |
 Self-Portrait, 1944 MORE INFO |
 On Avalon, 1987 MORE INFO |
 Avatar, 1947 MORE INFO |
 Hôtel du Pavot, Chambre 202 (Poppy Hotel, Room 202), 1973 MORE INFO |
 Zephirium apochripholiae (Windwort), 1997 MORE INFO |
 Notes for an Apocalypse, 1978 MORE INFO |
 Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, 1943 MORE INFO |
 Reality, 1973 MORE INFO |
 Étreinte, 1969 MORE INFO |
 Tableau vivant (Living Picture), 1954 MORE INFO |
 Far From, 1964 MORE INFO |
 De quel amour (By What Love), 1969 MORE INFO |
 Still in the Studio, 1979 MORE INFO |
 Même les jeunes filles (Even the Young Girls), 1966 MORE INFO |
 Dionysos SOS, 1989 MORE INFO |
 Death and the Maiden, 1953 MORE INFO |
 Murmurs, 1976 MORE INFO |
 Evening in Sedona, 1976 MORE INFO |
 Chiens de Cythère (Dogs of Cythera), 1963 MORE INFO |
 Un tissu de songes (Web of Dreams), 1993 MORE INFO |
 Interior with Sudden Joy, 1951 MORE INFO |
 Maternity, 1947 MORE INFO |
 Portefeuille (Pocketbook), 1946 MORE INFO |
 Woman Artist, Nude, Standing, 1987 MORE INFO |
 Children's Games, 1942 MORE INFO |
 Musical Chairs, 1951 MORE INFO |
 L'Education sentimentale (Sentimental Education), 1988 MORE INFO |
 Heartless, 1980 MORE INFO |
 Xmas, 1969 MORE INFO |
 On Time Off Time, 1948 MORE INFO |
 Door 84, 1984 MORE INFO |
 Daughters, 1983 MORE INFO |
 Portrait of Muriel Levy, 1943 MORE INFO |
 Pictor mysteriosa (Burnt Umbrage), 1997 MORE INFO |
 Portrait de famille (Family Portrait), 1977 MORE INFO |
 Portrait de famille (Family Portrait), 1954 MORE INFO |
 The Mirror, 1951 MORE INFO |
 Palaestra, 1947 MORE INFO |
 Canapé en temps de pluie (Rainy-Day Canapé), 1970 MORE INFO |
 The Truth About Comets, 1945 MORE INFO |
 I, 1986 MORE INFO |
 To Climb a Ladder, 1987 MORE INFO |
 Intérieur (Interior), 1953 MORE INFO |
 Voltage, 1942 MORE INFO |
 Le Soir à Saragosse (Evening in Saragossa), 1965 MORE INFO |
 Salut, délire! (Hail, Delirium!), 1979 MORE INFO |
 L'Heure mauve (The Mauve Hour), 1965 MORE INFO |
 Endgame, 1944 MORE INFO |
 The Guest Room, 1952 MORE INFO |
 Nue endormie (Sleeping Nude), 1954 MORE INFO |
 Guardian Angels, 1946 MORE INFO |
 Pelote d'épingles pouvant servir de fétiche (Pincushion to Serve as Fetish), 1965 MORE INFO |
 Tango Lives, 1977 MORE INFO |
 Nue couchée (Reclining Nude), 1970 MORE INFO |
 La Chienne et sa muse (The Dog and Her Muse), 1964 MORE INFO |
 Dimanche après-midi (Sunday Afternoon), 1953 MORE INFO |
 A Parisian Afternoon (Hôtel du Pavot), 1942 MORE INFO |
 Between Lives, 1989 MORE INFO |
 A Mrs. Radcliffe Called Today, 1944 MORE INFO |
 L'Inspiration vient en peignant (Inspiration Comes in Painting), 1973 MORE INFO |
 Wall figure from Hôtel du Pavot, Chambre 202, 1973 MORE INFO |
 To the Rescue, 1965 MORE INFO |
 Pour Gustave l'adoré, 1974 MORE INFO |
 Tempête en jaune (Tempest in Yellow), 1956 MORE INFO |
 Kenningar, 1961 MORE INFO |
 The Magic Flower Game, 1941 MORE INFO |
 Convolotus alchemelia (Quiet-willow window), 1998 MORE INFO |
Women artists. There is no such thing – or person. It’s just as much a contradiction in terms as "man artist" or "elephant artist." You may be a woman and you may be an artist; but the one is a given and the other is you.
– Dorothea Tanning, 1990
Dorothea Tanning's 1960 painting Visite jaune (Visite éclair) is featured in "(ism): 80 Years of Nonconformity" at Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, through September 15, 2017.
"Dreamers Awake," a show of female artists' work that explores the lasting influence of Surrealism, is on view at White Cube Bermondsey in London through September 17, 2017. This show features the painting Anges Mordus (1962).
"Medusa: Jewellery and Taboos" at The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, includes the gold brooch Mlle. Pieuvre (Miss Octopus) through November 5, 2017.
"We Are Completely Free: Women Artists and Surrealism," at Museo Picasso Málaga, will open October 10, 2017 and run through January 28, 2018, featuring the painting Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1943).
Catriona McAra has published a monograph entitled A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm (London: Routledge, 2017). As part of Routledge's "Studies in Surrealism" series, the book explores the artist's literary and visual work within a framework of cultural and feminist theory.
Dr. McAra also recently published the essay "Emma's Navel: Dorothea Tanning's Narrative Sculpture" in Intersections: Women Artists/
Surrealism/Modernism (Patricia Allmer, ed., Manchester University Press, 2016, pp. 91-111). The title refers to the sculpture Emma, 1970.
Sienna Freeman has published “Pulled, Stitched, and Stuffed: Materiality and the Abject in Dorothea Tanning’s Soft Sculpture” in Sightlines, the journal of the Department of Visual and Critical Studies of California College of the Arts (2016, pp. 17-29). The essay focuses on the installation piece Hôtel du Pavot, Chambre 202 (Poppy Hotel, Room 202) (1970-73).
Phaidon Press has published Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists (2016), a compilation that includes these words of Dorothea Tanning: “Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity.”
We are looking for information about a number of paintings in the effort to fully document Dorothea Tanning's work for a catalogue raisonné. If you have seen any of these paintings, please contact us.
Angel in Mauve and Orange (Study for Anges gardiens) (1947)
Les Infatigables (The Indefatigables) (1965)
