1945
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Summer in Amagansett, Long Island. A nuclear bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, another on Nagasaki. End of war. Dorothea Tanning meets George Balanchine who asks her to design a forthcoming ballet The Night Shadow. Works on ballet sets and costumes until November when she is stricken with encephalitis. By the end of the year she is recovering enough to finish the designs.
Chess Tournament at Julien Levy Gallery, January 6, 1945
Dorothea Tanning, Amagansett, New York
Beautiful Girl
The Truth About Comets
Dorothea Tanning, press photo for solo exhibition at Caresse Crosby Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Cover Design for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Souvenir Program, 1945-46 season, featuring The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine
Poet, costume design for The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine
The Sleepwalker, costume design for The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine
Set design for The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine
A Guest, costume design for The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine
A Guest, costume design for The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine
Oh, Dorothea Tanning!
Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst, New York, performing in Hans Richter's film Dreams That Money Can Buy
1946
At
this
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February. Dorothea Tanning returns to Arizona. From there she learns that The Night Shadow is premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House (Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo) to much acclaim. October 24th. Marriage with Max Ernst in double ceremony with Man Ray and Juliet Brouner in Beverly Hills. Meanwhile Sedona visitors, Marcel Duchamp, George Balanchine with wife Tanaquil Leclercq, Roland Penrose, Lee Miller, Caresse Crosby.
Portefeuille (Pocketbook)
Guardian Angels
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
The Young Student (Le Jeune Étudiant)
Portrait of Julie Man Ray
Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, Man Ray, and Juliet Browner, Hollywood, California
Dorothea Tanning, Sedona, Arizona
Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst, Sedona, Arizona
Dorothea Tanning in her studio, Sedona, Arizona
1947
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this
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Dorothea and Max build a house in Sedona. Visits from friends who find their way to Sedona: Cartier-Bresson with John Malcolm Brinnin, Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy, Vittorio Rieti...
Self-portrait
Max in a Blue Boat
Temoins du drame (Witnesses)
Maternity
Le Petit Marquis (The Little Marquis)
