Dorothea Tanning (Galesburg Illinois, 1910 - New York, 2012)
Les Trois Garces, 1953
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated on the bottom right "Dorothea Tanning 53", titled on the bottom center "Les trois garces"
Annotated "N23" on the back
65 x 54 cm
Provenance:
- Henri Creuzevault Collection, Paris
- Colette Creuzevault Collection, Paris (by descent)
- Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn collection, Paris

Exhibitions:
- Paris, Galerie Fürstenberg, "Dorothea Tanning. Peintures 1949-1954", 7 - 30 May 1954, described in the catalogue, n16
- Lima, Galeria de Lima, "Surrealismo", July 1954, exhibited under the title "Le tre virago"
- London, Arthur Jeffress Pictures, "Dorothea Tanning", 22 February - 19 March 1955, illustrated in the catalogue under no.6, exhibited under the title "The Three Graces"
- Knokke-Le-Zoute, Casino Communale, "Dorothea Tanning: XXème Festival Belge d'Eté", June - August 1967
- Tochigi, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, "Floating Images of Women in Art History", 20 July - 28 September 1997

Bibliography:
- "Hommage à Dorothea Tanning", XXème siècle, Special Issue, Paris, 1977, illustrated in the catalogue p. 109
- C. McAra, "A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm", Ed. Routledge, London, 2017, described in the catalogue under nos. 4.2 p. 91 and illustrated p. 90
- V. Carruthers, "Dorothea Tanning: Transformations", Ed. Lund Humphries, London, 2020, described in the catalogue p. 96 and illustrated fig. 77 p. 97

Our thanks to Mrs. Pamela S. Johnson for her kind contribution.

Note: this work was painted in Paris.