 Birthday, 1942 MORE INFO |
 Children's Games, 1942 MORE INFO |
 A Parisian Afternoon (Hôtel du Pavot), 1942 MORE INFO |
 Voltage, 1942 MORE INFO |
 Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, 1943 MORE INFO |
 Self-Portrait, 1944 MORE INFO |
 A Mrs. Radcliffe Called Today, 1944 MORE INFO |
 The Truth About Comets, 1945 MORE INFO |
 Guardian Angels, 1946 MORE INFO |
 Avatar, 1947 MORE INFO |
 Maternity, 1947 MORE INFO |
 Fatala, 1947 MORE INFO |
 Max in a Blue Boat, 1947 MORE INFO |
 A Very Happy Picture, 1947 MORE INFO |
 On Time Off Time, 1948 MORE INFO |
 Palaestra, 1949 MORE INFO |
 The Mirror, 1950 MORE INFO |
 Musical Chairs, 1951 MORE INFO |
 Interior with Sudden Joy, 1951 MORE INFO |
 La Rose et le Chien (The Rose and the Dog), 1952 MORE INFO |
 The Philosophers, 1952 MORE INFO |
 The Guest Room, 1952 MORE INFO |
 Dimanche après-midi (Sunday Afternoon), 1953 MORE INFO |
 Death and the Maiden, 1953 MORE INFO |
 Intérieur (Interior), 1953 MORE INFO |
 Portrait de famille (Family Portrait), 1954 MORE INFO |
 Tableau vivant (Living Picture), 1954 MORE INFO |
 Nue endormie (Sleeping Nude), 1954 MORE INFO |
 Le Mal oublié (The Ill Forgotten), 1955 MORE INFO |
 Tempête en jaune (Tempest in Yellow), 1956 MORE INFO |
 Insomnies (Insomnias), 1957 MORE INFO |
 Tamerlan (Tamerlane), 1959 MORE INFO |
 Touristes de Prague III (Tourists of Prague III), 1961 MORE INFO |
 Chiens de Cythère (Dogs of Cythera), 1963 MORE INFO |
 La Chienne et sa muse (The Dog and Her Muse), 1964 MORE INFO |
 Deux mots (Two Words), 1963 MORE INFO |
 Far From, 1964 MORE INFO |
 To the Rescue, 1965 MORE INFO |
 Le Soir à Saragosse (Evening in Saragossa), 1965 MORE INFO |
 Pelote d'épingles pouvant servir de fétiche (Pincushion to Serve as Fetish), 1965 MORE INFO |
 Même les jeunes filles (Even the Young Girls), 1966 MORE INFO |
 Étreinte, 1969 MORE INFO |
 Canapé en temps de pluie (Rainy-Day Canapé), 1970 MORE INFO |
 Don Juan's Breakfast, 1972 MORE INFO |
 Hôtel du Pavot, Chambre 202 (Poppy Hotel, Room 202), 1973 MORE INFO |
 Pour Gustave l'adoré, 1974 MORE INFO |
 Murmurs, 1976 MORE INFO |
 Tango Lives, 1977 MORE INFO |
 Portrait de famille (Family Portrait), 1977 MORE INFO |
 Notes for an Apocalypse, 1978 MORE INFO |
 Stanza, 1978 MORE INFO |
 Still in the Studio, 1979 MORE INFO |
 Heartless, 1980 MORE INFO |
 Pounding Strong, 1981 MORE INFO |
 Door 84, 1984 MORE INFO |
 To Climb a Ladder, 1987 MORE INFO |
 Woman Artist, Nude, Standing, 1987 MORE INFO |
 Poppies, 1987 MORE INFO |
 On Avalon, 1987 MORE INFO |
 Convolotus alchemelia (Quiet-willow window), 1998 MORE INFO |
Am I a surrealist? Am I a sophist, a Buddhist, a Zoroastrian? Am I an extremist, an alchemist, a contortionist, a mythologist, a fantasist, a humorist? Must we artists bow our heads and accept a label, without which we do not exist? The underlying ideas of surrealism are still very much with me. They are in the backs of a lot of other minds too, even in those so young as to have known only the records, the hearsay, the debris. But I have no label except artist.
– Dorothea Tanning, 1989
"International Surrealism from Tate: Fifty Years of Dreams" will be on view at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville from May 22 through August 30, 2026. The exhibition draws from the collection of the Tate Modern in London, and includes a range of paintings, photographs, and sculptures by the hand of the movement's luminaries as well as artists whose affinities have been less widely recognized. The installation will feature the painting Eine Kleine Nachmusik (1943), among other works.
"Endless Sunday: Maurizio Cattelan & The Centre Pompidou Collection" is on view at Centre Pompidou-Metz through February 2, 2027. Celebrating the site's 15th anniversary, the exhibition places pieces from the collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne in dialogue with the work of Maurizio Cattelan. With an organizational structure based on the alphabet and references to poetry, film, and literature, the show features painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, installation, video, and film, and includes the sculpture De quel amour (By What Love) (1969).
Amy Lyford's Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life Dorothea Tanning (Reaktion Books, 2024) focuses on key examples of Tanning's work in various media from her early Surrealist imagery through her late-career paintings. By discussing them in relation to concurrent topics of 20th-century art, society, and popular culture, and highlighting the artist's own ideas about ways to view her art, including a satirical, fantasy-based, documentary-style film about her paintings, Lyford examines Tanning's singular approach to creating a rich visual experience for the viewer.
Victoria Carruthers' monograph Dorothea Tanning: Transformations (Lund Humphries, 2020) surveys the range and depth of the arist's work and her enduring thematic preoccupations in the context of her the artist's life and career. This essential study is extensively illustrated and features material from interviews that the author conducted with Tanning between 2000 and 2009. Carruthers discusses the book in an interview found here.
We are looking for information about a number of paintings in the effort to fully document Dorothea Tanning's work for a catalogue raisonné. If you have seen any of these paintings, please contact us.
