Dorothea Tanning

(American, 1910-2012)

Orbit, 1986

graphite and watercolor on paper

signed and dated Dorothea Tanning 86

40 x 60 in. (101.6 x 152.4cm)

Provenance:

Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Acquired directly from the above in 1987.

Private Collection, Pennsylvania.

Exhibition:

“Dorothea Tanning: On Paper 1948-1986,” Kent Fine Art, New York, New York, January 7 - February 7, 1987.

“Dorothea Tanning: On Paper,” Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Inc., Houston, Texas, June 6 - July 8, 1987, cat. no. 27.

“Dorothea Tanning: Works on Paper,” Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 4 - 31, 1987, cat. no. 17.

“Dorothea Tanning: Om Konst Kunde Tala (If Art Could Talk),” Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden, (retrospective), April 3 - May 16, 1993, cat. no. 70.

Literature:

Donald Kuspit, “Dorothea Tanning,” Dorothea Tanning: On Paper 1948-1986, exhibition brochure, New York: Kent Fine Art, 1987, cat. no. 22, plate 9 (illustrated).

“Kent Fine Art, Inc.” The Print Collector’s Newsletter 28, no. 1, March/April 1987, p. 25 (illustrated).

Eleanor Heartney, “Dorothea Tanning,” Art News 86, 1987, p. 212.

Jeffrey Rian, "Dorothea Tanning at Kent," Art in America 75, no. 4, April 1987, p. 223.

Jean Christophe Bailly, Dorothea Tanning, New York: George Braziller, 1995, p. 245, plate 243 (illustrated).

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Orbit, 1986

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Orbit, 1986

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