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Lot 6*

DOROTHEA TANNING
(1910-2012)
Untitled

25 March 2021, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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DOROTHEA TANNING (1910-2012)

Untitled
indistinctly signed 'Dorothea Tanning' (lower right)
oil on canvas
14 x 17.8cm (5 1/2 x 7in).
Executed circa 1959

Footnotes

We are most grateful to The Dorothea Tanning Foundation for their assistance cataloguing this work.

Provenance
Julien Levy Collection, Connecticut (probably acquired from the Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York, on 9 March 1961).
Thence by descent; their sale, Tajan, Paris, 6 October 2004, lot 332.
Private collection, Texas (acquired at the above sale); their sale, Christie's, London, 5 February 2015, lot 466.
Private collection, US (acquired at the above sale).

Exhibited
New York, Alexander Iolas Gallery, Dorothea Tanning, 23 February - 18 March 1961.

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