1944
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Summer at Great River, Long Island with Max Ernst, Julien and Muriel Levy. Autumn. First one person exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery.
Fantastic Heliotherapy
Rapture
Self-Portrait
Rêve de Luxe (Dream of Luxury)
A Mrs. Radcliffe Called Today
Fête Champêtre
Invitation to the exhibition "Dorothea Tanning," Julien Levy Gallery, New York, 1944
Cover for the brochure for the exhibition "Dorothea Tanning," Julien Levy Gallery, New York, 1944
Dorothea Tanning, Great River, Long Island
Illustration for Ramon Sartoris’s If Caesar Be
Illustration for Ramon Sartoris’s The Clue of the Wrong Thing
Illustration for Ramon Sartoris’s From Core to Rind
The Civilizing Influence
Endgame
1945
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Summer in Amagansett, Long Island. A nuclear bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, another on Nagasaki. End of war. Dorothea Tanning meets George Balanchine who asks her to design a forthcoming ballet The Night Shadow. Works on ballet sets and costumes until November when she is stricken with encephalitis. By the end of the year she is recovering enough to finish the designs.
Chess Tournament at Julien Levy Gallery, January 6, 1945
Dorothea Tanning, Amagansett, New York
Beautiful Girl
The Truth About Comets
Dorothea Tanning, press photo for solo exhibition at Caresse Crosby Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Cover Design for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Souvenir Program, 1945-46 season, featuring The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine
Poet, costume design for The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine
The Sleepwalker, costume design for The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine
Set design for The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine
A Guest, costume design for The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine
A Guest, costume design for The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine
Oh, Dorothea Tanning!
Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst, New York, performing in Hans Richter's film Dreams That Money Can Buy
1946
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February. Dorothea Tanning returns to Arizona. From there she learns that The Night Shadow is premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House (Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo) to much acclaim. October 24th. Marriage with Max Ernst in double ceremony with Man Ray and Juliet Brouner in Beverly Hills. Meanwhile Sedona visitors, Marcel Duchamp, George Balanchine with wife Tanaquil Leclercq, Roland Penrose, Lee Miller, Caresse Crosby.
