1953
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January. Will o the Wisp, New York City Ballet, scenery and costumes by Dorothea Tanning. March. Return to Paris. A temporary studio produces new works: Tableau Vivant, Death and the Maiden, Family Portrait.
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Intérieur (Interior)
Death and the Maiden
Drawing for Dimanche après-midi (Sunday Afternoon)
Dimanche après-midi (Sunday Afternoon)
Untitled (Set Design for Bayou)
Les Trois Garces
Tango
1954
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First Dorothea Tanning exhibition in Paris at Galerie Furstenburg. Travels in Italy. Acquisition, with Max Ernst, of a farmhouse in Huismes, Indre et Loire, an area often called the garden of France. Work and pleasure in this house will occupy most of the next ten years.
Dorothea Tanning in her studio, Paris
Red Drama
Valse bleue (The Blue Waltz)
Portrait de famille (Family Portrait)
Katchina Coquette
Tableau vivant (Living Picture)
Le Balcon
Nue endormie (Sleeping Nude)
Halloween en noir (Halloween in Black)
1955
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An exhibition in London, Dorothea Tanning, at the Arthur Jeffress Gallery. A new period in her painting, sometimes referred to as prismatic, begins with Le Mal Oublié (The Ill Forgotten). Begins long association with Georges Visat, master etcher, and the etching process.
Le Mal oublié (The Ill Forgotten)
Dorothea Tanning, Huismes, France
1956
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Once more in Sedona. Performs in Hans Richter’s film, 8 x 8
L'Imposteur mérovingien (The Merovingian Imposter)
Tempête en jaune (Tempest in Yellow)
Vorace veracité
1957
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Here it must be said that all efforts to preserve Max Ernst’s American citizenship have failed. The McCarran-Walter Act, a ghoulish piece of legislation enacted by the American congress during the McCarthy era is directed against foreign-born Americans. In October Dorothea Tanning returns, with Max Ernst, to France.
Les Tricheurs
Midi et demi (Half Past Noon)
Insomnies (Insomnias)
