Un Beau Mensonge (A Beautiful Lie)
Mother and Child
D.T. avec son chien savant (D.T. with her smart dog)
Nue Couchée (Reclining Nude)
The Artist as a Dog
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"Untitled"
Untitled (“Ink Drawing”)
1968
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In the Salon de Mai her canvas, called The Descent into the Street, a title lifted from some newspaper or other, provokes wonder. How did she know there would be a monster student uprising, now, complete with tear gas and overturned buses (not in the painting).
Potential
La Descente dans la rue (Down into the Streets)
Lundi sans date (Monday without Date)
Les Intrigués de Pekin (Intrigued in Peking)
Chien de samedi
General Pandemonium
Maternités (Frieze)
Fête Champêtre
Dorothea Tanning in her studio, Paris
1969
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No discernible connection: in Paris a concert of new work by K. Stockhausen fires a new expression, cloth sculptures. Under the title Hôtel du Pavot (Poppy Hotel), a roomful of these may be seen in the permanent collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Americans walk on the moon.
Inutile (Useless)
Philosophie en plein air (Fresh-air Philosophy)
Ténèbres (Shadows)
Maverick
Xmas
Étreinte
De quel amour (By What Love)
Sketch for De quel amour (By What Love)
1970
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Move into new house, Seillans. A hundred years earlier it would have been called a “folly.” Stone columns and marble floors and high studios (two). But it was all hers, like a painting, unsigned, an indescribable experience, a qualified enchantment.
Study for Cousins
Cousins
Pages 14-15 from Projets de 1969-70, a sketchbook of designs for sculptures
