Artworks · Dorothea Tanning

Green Park

1982 · Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

49.2 × 68.5 cm (19 3/8 × 27 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Events

1982 · Watercolor and graphite with charcoal on off-white wove paper

105 × 75.7 cm (41 3/8 × 29 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Notes for an Apocalypse

1978 · Oil on canvas

50 × 62" (127 × 157.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Nue couchée

1969 · Cotton textile, cardboard, 7 table tennis balls, wool and thread

object: 385 x 1089 x 535 mm

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Pincushion to Serve as Fetish

1965 · Velvet, plastic funnel, metal pins, sawdust and wool

object: 372 x 370 x 455 mm

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Dogs of Cythera

1963 · Oil on canvas

77 1/2 × 117" (196.9 × 297.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Orphans from Dorothea Tanning: Bilder, Gouaches, Zeichnungen 1957-1963

1963 · Etching

plate: 8 x 6 3/8" (20.3 x 16.2 cm); sheet: 14 9/16 x 9 15/16" (37 x 25.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

A Mi-Voix

1958 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 1302 x 972 mm

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Head of a Child

1953 · Watercolor and graphite on buff wove paper

66.6 × 55.4 cm (26 1/4 × 21 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Some Roses and Their Phantoms

1952 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 763 x 1015 x 23 mm frame: 973 x 1225 x 82 mm

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A Drawing for Midnight

1951 · Graphite on paper

73.5 × 59 cm (28 15/16 × 23 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sixth Peril (Sixième péril) from The 7 Spectral Perils (Les 7 périls spectraux)

1950 · One from a portfolio of seven lithographs

composition: 14 3/16 × 10 13/16" (36 × 27.5 cm); sheet: 19 7/8 × 12 11/16" (50.5 × 32.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Fifth Peril (Cinquième péril) from The 7 Spectral Perils (Les 7 périls spectraux)

1950 · One from a portfolio of seven lithographs

composition (irreg.): 14 11/16 × 11" (37.3 × 28 cm); sheet: 19 3/4 × 12 13/16" (50.2 × 32.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Seventh Peril (Septième péril) from The 7 Spectral Perils (Les 7 périls spectraux)

1950 · One from a portfolio of seven lithographs

composition (irreg.): 14 3/8 × 10 7/16" (36.5 × 26.5 cm); sheet: 19 13/16 × 12 3/4" (50.4 × 32.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Fourth Peril (Quatrième péril) from The 7 Spectral Perils (Les 7 périls spectraux)

1950 · One from a portfolio of seven lithographs

composition: 13 7/8 × 10 1/2" (35.2 × 26.6 cm); sheet: 19 13/16 × 12 13/16" (50.4 × 32.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Third Peril (Troisième péril) from The 7 Spectral Perils (Les 7 périls spectraux)

1950 · One from a portfolio of seven lithographs

composition (irreg.): 14 13/16 × 10 13/16" (37.6 × 27.5 cm); sheet: 19 3/4 × 12 13/16" (50.2 × 32.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Second Peril (Deuxième péril) from The 7 Spectral Perils (Les 7 périls spectraux)

1950 · One from a portfolio of seven lithographs

composition (irreg.): 14 3/4 × 10 3/4" (37.5 × 27.3 cm); sheet: 19 3/4 × 12 13/16" (50.2 × 32.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

First Peril (Premier péril) from The 7 Spectral Perils (Les 7 périls spectraux)

1950 · One from a portfolio of seven lithographs

composition: 14 3/8 × 10 13/16" (36.5 × 27.4 cm); sheet: 19 3/4 × 12 13/16" (50.2 × 32.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

On Time Off Time

1948 · Oil on canvas

14 1/8 x 20 1/2" (35.9 x 52.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate from Le Surréalisme en 1947

1947 · Etching from an illustrated book with eighteen lithographs, four etchings (two with aquatint), two woodcuts, one photogravure, and one ready-made object

plate: 5 7/8 × 4" (15 × 10.1 cm); page: 9 7/16 × 8" (24 × 20.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

1943 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 407 x 610 mm frame: 640 x 833 x 85 mm

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