Premier peril (First Peril)
Dorothea Tanning, American, 1910 - 2012
1949-1950
Color lithograph on paper
47/50
Sheet: 20 1/8 × 13 1/8 in. (51.1 × 33.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.951.7.1
Portfolio / Series Title
Les 7 Perils Spectraux (The 7 Spectral Perils)
Printer
Desjobert, Paris
Publisher
Librairie Les Pas Perdus, Paris
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Dorothea Tanning; inscribed, in graphite, lower left margin: 47/50
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 45, Discovering Identity Through Art, Joan Miro and Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist Explorations of the Unconscious, Melissa Fan, Class of 2008, Main Lobby, Levinson Student Intern, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 16-August 3, 2008.
Reality and its Alternatives, Art History 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 4-March 13, 2005.
Shadows and Hallucinations: Surrealist Art from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, MALS308, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 24-September 5, 1999.
Surrealist Works from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, MALS, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 20-September 1, 2002.
Publication History
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.190, no.207.
Provenance
Wittenborn & Company, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1951.
Catalogue Raisonne
R. Waddell and L. Wood Ruby, Dorothea Tanning: Hail, Delirium!, 1992, no. 6.II.
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