Dorothea TanningAmerican, 1910–2012Tempest in Yellow
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minneapolis, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 2007.44
In the catalog
Sources
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — © Estate Dorothea Tanning / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Meanwhile, in the life of Dorothea Tanning
The whole life1950s–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.
c. 1955
Her canvases “splinter”: a break with Surrealism
Working in Paris and Huismes, in the mid-1950s she moves away from Surrealism: her images grow fragmented and prismatic. In her words, around 1955 her canvases literally splintered, as if she had broken the mirror.
1955
A house of their own in Touraine
From 1955 the couple live in a house of their own in Touraine.
1957
Appears in Richter’s “8 x 8”
She performs in Hans Richter’s avant-garde film 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements.
