Birthday (Self Portrait at Age 30), Circa 1970
Dorothea Tanning   Master Artists

Print : lithography · 74 x 53.3 x 0.3 cm 29.1 x 21 x 0.1 inch

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Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012)
Birthday (Self Portrait at Age 30), c. 1970
Color offset lithograph. 573x363 mm; 22 1/2x14 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 18/150 in pencil, lower margin. A superb impression with vibrant colors.

Based on Tanning's (1910-2012) oil on canvas, Birthday, 1942, now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Tanning (1910-2012) was born and raised in Galesburg, Illinois. After two years of college, she left to pursue an artistic career, moving first to Chicago in 1930 and then to New York in 1935, where she supported herself as a commercial artist while working on her own painting. In New York, Tanning discovered Surrealism at The Museum of Modern Art's 1936 exhibition, "Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism." In 1941, she was introduced to the gallery owner and champion of Dada and Surrealism, Julien Levy, who offered to show her work. Levy gave Tanning two solo exhibitions (in 1944 and 1948), and also introduced her to the circle of émigré Surrealists whose work he was showing in his New York gallery, including the German painter, Max Ernst.

Tanning and Ernst were married in 1946 in a double wedding with Man Ray and Juliet Browner in Hollywood, California. They lived initially in New York, then Sedona, Arizona, and, in 1949, relocated to France. As Tanning recounts in her memoirs, Ernst, who was 19 years her senior, was first enchanted by her iconic self-portrait Birthday (Self Portrait at Age 30), painted around the time she and Ernst first met. 

Nude

Portrait

Women

Surrealism

Beige

Green

Dorothea Tanning, Birthday (Self Portrait at Age 30)
United States  • 1910  - 2012

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In 2012, aged 101, passed away one of the last representatives of surrealism of the great era, Dorothea Tanning. Too often identified as "wife of" Max Ernst , she deserves above all to be recognized for her rare talent. So who is Dorothea Tanning, one of the twentieth century's most sulphurous American painters?

Born in 1910 in the state of Illinois, to Swedish parents, the young Dorothea developed her artistic sense very early on. Compulsive designer, at the age of twenty, she finally left to study at the Art Institute of Chicago and then settled in New York as an advertising designer.

As for many, the 1936 exhibition "Fantastic-art, Dada, surrealism" at Moma is a revelation for the artist, who subsequently joined the group of New York surrealists led by André Breton. The same year, she notably produced her famous painting: Little night music.

In 1943, already exhibited in the prestigious Julien Levy gallery, she met the German painter and sculptor Max Ernst. They married in 1946, in Los Angeles, at the same time as Man Ray and Juliet Browner.

At the beginning of the 1950s, the couple settled permanently in France (in Paris, then in the provinces). Dorothea Tanning then meets all the European precursors of surrealism. Curiously, it was also at this time that she turned away from this movement to develop a unique and totally revolutionary style.

The American breaks the ancient codes of painting by deciding to represent desire from a female point of view. She declares "breaking the mirror" by refusing the status of muse or wife reserved for women who levitate around the surrealists.

His work was hailed by critics and, over the following decades, major contemporary art institutions devoted retrospective exhibitions to him (the Center Pompidou, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, etc.).

After Ernst's death in 1976, Dorothea Tanning returned to New York. She died in her Manhattan apartment on January 31, 2012.

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