Dorothea TanningAmerican, 1910–2012On Time Off Time
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The Museum of Modern Art
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- 86.2010
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Meanwhile, in the life of Dorothea Tanning
The whole life1946
Married: Max Ernst
1946–1948
A house in Sedona, Arizona
After the wedding — a double ceremony in Hollywood with Man Ray and Juliet Browner — Tanning and Ernst settle in Sedona, build a house and host friends crossing the country, among them Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Miller, Roland Penrose, Yves Tanguy, Kay Sage, Pavel Tchelitchew, George Balanchine and Dylan Thomas.
1947
Appears in a Hans Richter film
She performs in Hans Richter’s avant-garde film Dreams That Money Can Buy.
1948
Second solo exhibition with Levy
Tanning’s second solo exhibition at Julien Levy’s gallery, after the first in 1944.
1949
Moves to France
Tanning and Ernst relocate to France (other accounts give 1948), dividing their time between Paris and Touraine and returning to Sedona at intervals through the mid-1950s.
1950s–1970s
Becomes an active printmaker
While living in France she works in the ateliers of Georges Visat and Pierre Chave and makes work for limited-edition artists’ books by such poets as Alain Bosquet, René Crevel, Lena Leclerq and André Pieyre de Mandiargues.
