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Birthday
(Self Portrait at Age 30, 1942) Lithograph: *Lithograph on arches
*Signed in the plate *Edition 150 *Year circa 1970 Dorothea Tanning,
(1910 - 2012) was born in Galesburg, Illinois. Tanning lived in [France]
for twenty-eight years. Having moved to New York, she exhibited with
the Julien Levy Gallery prior to meeting the German painter Max Ernst in
1942. She married Ernst four years later, in a double wedding with Man
Ray and Juliette Browner. Tanning thus became Ernst's fourth wife, after
Luise Straus-Ernst in 1918, Marie-Berthe Aurenche in 1927, and Peggy
Guggenheim in 1942. Ernst introduced her to the circle of the
Surrealists. During her 95th year, a New York gallery published a new
monograph entitled Dorothea Tanning: Insomnias 19551965. Her most recent
museum exhibition was organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art,
entitled Birthday and Beyond, and mounted in 2000 to mark their
acquisition of Tannings celebrated 1942 self-portrait, Birthday. In the
1940s, when she was one of the painters in Julien Levys stable, Tanning
painted within the idiom of surrealist representation. By the mid-50s,
her work had radically changed. As Tanning explains, Around 1955 my
canvases literally splintered. I broke the mirror, you might say."
Insomnias (Moderna Museet, Stockholm) - the group takes its name from a
painting of the same title that Tanning made in 1957 - are forays into
the realm of conjured energies. They represent a forceful shift at a
particular, postwar moment that continues to reverberate today. In his
essay for Dorothea Tanning: Insomnias, Charles Stuckey describes these
seemingly multidimensional mindspaces" as among the most ambitious and
sophisticated paintings to address the dilemmas of imagination and
culture in a new atomic, space-race age." Following her retrospective at
the Centre Pompidou organized by Pontus Hultn in 1974, Tanning returned
to New York in 1978 after the death of her husband, Max Ernst. In her
tenth decade, Tanning has often published poetry in The New Yorker, and
is completing several books. Her most recent novel is Chasm (2004).
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