Drawing for Dimanche après-midi (Sunday Afternoon)
						 
						
						Dimanche après-midi (Sunday Afternoon)
						 
						
						Untitled (Set Design for Bayou)
						 
						
						Les Trois Garces
						 
						
						Tango
						 1954
		
				 
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					First Dorothea Tanning exhibition in Paris at Galerie Furstenburg. Travels in Italy. Acquisition, with Max Ernst, of a farmhouse in Huismes, Indre et Loire, an area often called the garden of France. Work and pleasure in this house will occupy most of the next ten years.
				 
			 
						
						Dorothea Tanning in her studio, Paris
						 
						
						Red Drama
						 
						
						Valse bleue (The Blue Waltz)
						 
						
						Portrait de famille (Family Portrait)
						 
						
						Katchina Coquette
						 
						
						Tableau vivant (Living Picture)
						 
						
						Le Balcon
						 
						
						Nue endormie (Sleeping Nude)
						 
						
						Halloween en noir (Halloween in Black)
						 1955
		
				 
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					An exhibition in London, Dorothea Tanning, at the Arthur Jeffress Gallery. A new period in her painting, sometimes referred to as prismatic, begins with Le Mal Oublié (The Ill Forgotten). Begins long association with Georges Visat, master etcher, and the etching process.
				 
			 
						
						Le Mal oublié (The Ill Forgotten)
						 
						
						Dorothea Tanning, Huismes, France
						 1956
		
				 
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					Once more in Sedona. Performs in Hans Richter’s film, 8 x 8
				 
			 
						
						L'Imposteur mérovingien (The Merovingian Imposter)
						 
						
						Tempête en jaune (Tempest in Yellow)
						 
						
						Vorace veracité
						 1957
		
				 
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					Here it must be said that all efforts to preserve Max Ernst’s American citizenship have failed. The McCarran-Walter Act, a ghoulish piece of legislation enacted by the American congress during the McCarthy era is directed against foreign-born Americans. In October Dorothea Tanning returns, with Max Ernst, to France.
				 
			 
						
						Les Tricheurs
						 
						
						Midi et demi (Half Past Noon)
						 
						
						Insomnies (Insomnias)
						 
						
						À mi-voix (Whispers)
						 
						
						Dorothea Tanning
						 1958
		
				 
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					Move to 58, rue Mathurin Régnier, an address difficult of pronunciation for Dorothea in taxicabs. Divides time between Paris and Huismes studios.
				 
			 
						
						Untitled