Dorothea Tanning
Delegates , 1975 (Executed)
Lot #11 |
2021-05-20 |
Sotheby's, London
(Women) Artists
Category:
Works on Paper
Estimate:
GBP 4,000 - 6,000 (currency of sale)
USD 5,504 - 8,256 (approx.)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Sotheby's
Auction number: L21008
Auction name: (Women) Artists
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: London
Start date: 2021-05-20
End date: 2021-05-27
Currency: GBP
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: 20th Century Art
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
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Dimensions: 22.9 by 29.9cm.
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
22.9
Width In Centimeters:
29.9
Height In Inches:
9
Width In Inches:
11.75
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Year notes: Executed in 1975.
Provenance
Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas Private Collection, Houston, Texas (acquired from the above in 1991) Sale: Heritage Auctions, New York, 2nd May 2016, lotĀ 69056 Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
Scottsdale, Arizona, Yares Gallery, 1980 (titled Siesta ) Los Angeles, Feingarten Galleries, Dorothea Tanning , 1987 Houston, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, A Surrealist Miscellany , 1991
Literature
Jean Christophe Bailly & Robert C. Morgan, Dorothea Tanning , New York, 1995, pl. 198, illustrated p. 219
Catalog summary
Property from an Important Private Collection, USA Dorothea Tanning 1910 - 2012 Delegates signed Dorothea Tanning (lower right) watercolour and pencil on paper 22.9 by 29.9cm., 9 by 11 Ā¾ in. Framed: 43 by 51cm., 17 by 20in. Executed in 1975. We are grateful to The Dorothea Tanning Foundation for their assistance in cataloguing this work. Provenance Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas Private Collection, Houston, Texas (acquired from the above in 1991) Sale: Heritage Auctions, New York, 2nd May 2016, lotĀ 69056 Purchased at the above sale by the present owner Exhibited Scottsdale, Arizona, Yares Gallery, 1980 (titled Siesta ) Los Angeles, Feingarten Galleries, Dorothea Tanning , 1987 Houston, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, A Surrealist Miscellany , 1991 Literature Jean Christophe Bailly & Robert C. Morgan, Dorothea Tanning , New York, 1995, pl. 198, illustrated p. 219