Life & Work Timeline

1948

Dorothea Tanning

1949

At
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AT THIS TIME

July. Departure for Paris, France, which is still recovering from the war. Find a home of sorts: two maid’s rooms on the top floor of 13 quai St. Michel. Dorothea Tanning works at the lithograph atelier of Edmond Desjobert to produce her first album of lithographs, Les Sept Périls Spectraux (The Seven Spectral Perils).

Palaestra

Very Small Nude

Fantasy Figure

L'Auberge

Untitled (Study for Troisième péril from Les 7 périls spectraux)

On Fire

Drawing for Musical Chairs

"Legend"

"Abyss"

1950

At
this
time...

AT THIS TIME

Summer in the south of France. August at 10 rue du Bateau in Antibes. An afternoon with Picasso, Francoise Gilot and babies at Vallauris will be remembered, as of course he knew it would. October. Exhibition of lithographs at Galerie Les Pas Perdus, rue des Ciseaux, in Paris. Again for Balanchine a new ballet, The Witch, in collaboration with The Sadler’s Wells Ballet Company of London. Scenery and costumes by Dorothea Tanning, with choreography by John Cranko. Performed at Covent Garden, August 18th.

The Mirror

Illustration for "Lettre Inédite du Marquis de Sade à Madame de Sade," Almanach Surréaliste du Demi-Siècle

High Wires

Metamorphose (Metamorphosis)

Bâteau bleu (The Grotto)

Cover for Les 7 périls spectraux

Premier péril (First Peril) from Les 7 périls spectraux (The Seven Spectral Perils)

Deuxième péril (Second Peril) from Les 7 périls spectraux (The Seven Spectral Perils)

Troisième péril (Third Peril) from Les 7 périls spectraux (The Seven Spectral Perils)

Quatrième péril (Fourth Peril) from Les 7 périls spectraux (The Seven Spectral Perils)

Cinquième péril (Fifth Peril) from Les 7 périls spectraux (The Seven Spectral Perils)

Sixième péril (Sixth Peril) from Les 7 périls spectraux (The Seven Spectral Perils)

Septième péril (Seventh Peril) from Les 7 périls spectraux (The Seven Spectral Perils)

Dorothea Tanning, Paris

Untitled (Set Design for an Unrealized Ballet)

Dorothea Tanning, Paris

Set design for The Witch, a ballet by John Cranko

Castle Midnight, costume design for The Witch, a ballet by John Cranko