"The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth" at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England, is open through October 5, 2025.  The exhibition features both historical and contemporary works of art depicting flowers in all their forms in dialogue with the botanical history of the Chatsworth estate itself. Drawn from Devonshire Collections, new artist commissions, and institutional loans, the show includes the painting Some Roses and Their Phantoms (1952).

"Artists' Jewelry: From Cubism to Pop, the Diane Venet Collection" is open at The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida through October 5, 2025.  More than 150 pieces of jewelry designed by 140 modern and contemporary artists are displayed in conversation with their paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and photographs from the Norton's Collection.  Among the works on view are the jewelry pieces Le Nil (1966) and Mlle. Pieuvre (1966) and the painting Heartless (1980).

"Rendezvous der Träume. Surrealismus und deutsche Romantik (Rendevous of Dreams: Surrealism and German Romanticism)" is open at the Hamburger Kunsthalle through October 12, 2025.  The exhibition celebrates the Surrealist movement as part of a major two-year collaboration with The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Musée National d’Art Contemporain, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Fundación MAPFRE Madrid, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art that has allowed all partnering museums to focus on the highlights and contexts of their own collections. The final iteration, "Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100," will be presented at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from November 8, 2025 through February 16, 2026.  Among the works featured in Hamburg and Philadelphia is the painting Birthday (1942).

"Endless Sunday: Maurizio Cattelan & The Centre Pompidou Collection" is on view at Centre Pompidou-Metz through February 2, 2027.  Celebrating the site's 15th anniversary, the exhibition places pieces from the collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne in dialogue with the work of Maurizio Cattelan.  With an organizational structure based on the alphabet and references to poetry, film, and literature, the show features painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, installation, video, and film, and includes the sculpture De quel amour (By What Love) (1969).

"Animal!? Une exposition de chefs-d'œuvre" will be open at Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc Pour la Culture, Landerneau, France, from June 14 through November 2, 2025.   The exhibition explores the concept of "animal" – one of the oldest subjects in art – from a cross-disciplinary and transhistorical perspective, examining how animals are portrayed, how they function as symbols, how they are understood by different cultures and artists, and how their representation sheds light on humanity’s own views of itself at different points in time. Featuring works from over 130 artists, the show includes the 1967 collage Untitled (The Artist as a Dog).

"The Subterranean Sky: Surrealism in the Moderna Museet Collection" is on view at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm through January 11, 2026.  The exhibition marks the centennary of Surrealism as a revolutionary literary and artistic movement, rather than a particular style, and one that aimed to transcend cultural and social limitations and see the individual’s subconscious as a key to another, better world beyond the confines of logic and reason.  With a view to the ongoing evolution of Surrealism, the show draws nearly 200 works from  the museum's permanent collection, including the sculpture Don Juan's Breakfast (1972) and the painting Insomnias (1957).

"From Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism" will be on view at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, from October 17, 2025 through March 1, 2026.  The exhibition highlights a two-year research project investigating the provenances of works from the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, which now belongs to the Neue Nationalgalerie.  The historical journeys of these paintings and sculptures are examined to reveal the complex international networks of artists, art dealers, and collectors involved in the Surrealist movement, illustrating their friendships, collecting passions, and stories of personal loss, persecution, and new beginnings during politically challenging times.  Among the works in the Pietzsch Collection is the painting Voltage (1942).

JOAN Publishing has re-released Fish Out of Water by Claire-Louise Bennett (first published in 2020 by Juxta Press, Milan, as part of their Words for Portraits series), with the new poem Self-Portrait with Wings by Chloe Aridjis.  Bennett wrote Fish Out of Water in response to seeing Dorothea Tanning's painting Self-Portrait (1944) and a sense of affinity with the artist; Aridjis's piece was written in response to Bennett's text and inspired by Tanning's painting Birthday (1942).

Amy Lyford has published Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life Dorothea Tanning (Reaktion Books, 2023). In this new monograph, Lyford focuses on key examples of Tanning's work in various media from her early Surrealist imagery through her late-career paintings. By discussing them in relation to concurrent topics of 20th-century art, society, and popular culture, and highlighting the artist's own ideas about ways to view her art, including a satirical, fantasy-based, documentary-style film about her paintings, Lyford examines Tanning's singular approach to creating a rich visual experience for the viewer.

Anna Watz has edited a new collection of essays, A History of the Surrealist Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2023).  Her essay "The Mother Figure in the Surrealist Novel" and Catriona McAra's "Feminist-Surrealism in the Contemporary Novel" examine Tanning's novel Chasm: A Weekend, while Katharine Conley's essay "Autobiography" discusses Tanning's memoir Birthday in the context of Surrealist writings. These are among twenty scholarly essays that consider many texts previously left out of critical accounts of the surrealist movement -- texts written by men and women in French, English, Spanish, German, Greek, and Japanese, from its emergence in the 1920s and 1930s, through the post-war and postmodern periods, and up to the present moment.

Kasmin Gallery has published the exhibition catalogue Dorothea Tanning: Doesn’t the Paint Say It All?  Both the show and the book take their title from Tanning’s own essay entitled "To Paint," which is included in the publication. This poetic and impassioned text, first published in 1986, describes the artist's creative process and the nature of the medium itself.   The catalogue also explores the artist's unique surrealist practice and the tension between abstraction and figuration in her work through reflections on Tanning’s paintings by three art historians and scholars of surrealism: Mary Ann Caws, Katharine Conley, and Victoria Carruthers.  Hyperallergic nominated the publication as one of "The Best Art Books of 2022."   

Susan L. Power contemplates the motif of doors in her essay "Portes et miroirs dans le monde surconscient de Dorothea Tanning" in the exhibition catalogue SurréAlice: Lewis Carroll et les Surréalistes (Vol. 1 of 2, Strasbourg: Editions des Musées de Strasbourg, 2022, pp. 75-83). The publication explores the Surealists' interest in Carroll's work as a precursor and inspiration to their own.

Victoria Carruthers has published Dorothea Tanning: Transformations (Lund Humphries, 2020). A definitive study of the artist's life and career, this monograph provides a framework within which to consider the range and depth of Tanning's work and her enduring thematic preoccupations. The book is extensively illustrated and features previously unpublished material from interviews that the author conducted with Tanning between 2000 and 2009. Carruthers discusses the book in an interview found here.

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.

Concerning Wishes (1942)

Le Petit Marquis (1947)

Angel in Mauve and Orange (Study for Anges gardiens) (1947)

Les Infatigables (The Indefatigables) (1965)