Dorothea Tanning
Simplified Botany - The Sea
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September 18, 06:19 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Dorothea Tanning
1910 - 2012
Simplified Botany - The Sea
signed D. Tanning and dated 43 (lower right); titled (lower left)
pen and ink and pencil on board
50.6 by 38.1 cm. 19⅞ by 15 in.
Executed in 1943.
We are grateful to The Dorothea Tanning Foundation for their assistance in cataloguing this work.
Timothy Baum, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Acquired from the above on 2 July 1991 by the present owner
New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Dorothea Tanning, 1944
New York, Arnold Herstand and Company, Surrealism: Works on Paper from De Chirico to Pollock, 1984
Margaret Breuning, "Tanning Falls Short,” The Art Digest, vol. 18, no. 14, 15 April 1944, p. 10 (titled Simplified Botany)
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