"Dorothea Tanning: Printmaker" is on view through May 22, 2022 at Farleys House & Gallery, the historic home of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose in Muddles Green, East Sussex. The exhibition will focus on the artist's graphic works, presented in a setting she knew well from numerous visits to see her friends the Penroses. Among the works will be the etching Nue Couchée (Reclining Nude) (1965).

"Surrealism Beyond Borders" is on view at Tate Modern in London through August 29, 2022.  Organized together with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the exhibition explores the expanisve international and chronological scope of the Surrealist movement, and includes the painting Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1943).

"Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity" is on view at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice through September 26, 2022, after which it will travel to Museum Barberini, Potsdam. With paintings such as The Magic Flower Game (1941), the exhibition explores the inspiration that many artists of the Surrealist movement drew from the symbolism of magic and the occult.

"The Milk of Dreams," The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, is open through November 27, 2022.  Curated by Ceclia Alemani, the exhibition contemplates artists' views of the body and its metamorphoses through the perspectives of technology, language, nature, and the earth, with paintings such as Avatar (1947) providing historical context for contmeporary works. 

"SURREAL! Imagining New Realities" is on view at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna through October 16, 2022.  The exhibition, drawn largely from the private collection of Helmut Klewan, explores the relationship of the theories that emerged from psychoanalysis to the art and practices of surrealism. The show includes the lithograph Bateau Blue (The Grotto) (1950):

"The Picasso Century" will open at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, June 22 through October 9, 2022.  Developed with the Centre Pompidou and the Musée national Picasso-Paris, the exhibition charts the extraordinary career of Pablo Picasso in dialogue with works by more than 50 of the artists, poets and intellectuals with whom he intercepted and interacted throughout the 20th century.

Kasmin Gallery is publishing a fully illustrated, scholarly catalogue for the exhibition "Dorothea Tanning: Doesn’t the Paint Say It All?" which examined the artist's unique surrealist practice and the tension between abstraction and figuration in her paintings throughout her career. The exhibition and book take their title from Tanning’s own essay entitled "To Paint," a poetic and impassioned text first published in 1986 that resembles a personal manifesto on her own creative process and the nature of the medium. The publication will include this text together with reflections on Tanning’s paintings by three art historians and scholars of surrealism: Mary Ann Caws, Katharine Conley, and Victoria Carruthers (author of the recent monograph Dorothea Tanning: Transformations, Lund Humphries, 2020).   Among the paintings discussed is Door 84 from 1984.

Anna Watz has published an article in Art History (Vol. 45:1, February 2022) entitled "Maternities: Dorothea Tanning s Aesthetics of Touch." In it, the author examines Tanning's paintings and sculpture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in which themes of touch, contiguity, and the concept of maternity examplify some of the intellectual crosscurrents between poststructuralist feminism and art of this period.  The full text can be viewed here.

Catriona McAra has published a chapter in Surrealist Women’s Writing: A Critical Exploration, edited by Anna Watz (Manchester University Press, 2021, pp. 210-224). In "Open Sesame: Dorothea Tanning’s Critical Writing," Dr. McAra examine Tanning's nonfiction writing within the context of both her broader literary and visual arts œuvre.

Adrian Dannatt has published Doomed and Famous: Selected Obituaries through Sequence Press (2021).  The collection includes his piece "Grande Dame in Eternal Exile: Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012)" that appeared on artcrtical.com (February 16, 2012).  

Victoria Carruthers has published Dorothea Tanning: Transformations, released by Lund Humphries. A definitive study of the artist's life and career, this monograph provides a framework within which to consider the range and depth of Tanning's work and thematic preoccupations. The book is extensively illustrated and features previously unpublished material from interviews which the author conducted with the artist between 2000 and 2009. The author discusses the book in an interview found here.

Max Ernst – D-paintings – Zeitreise der Liebe, an exhibition catalogue published by the Max Ernst Museum Brühl, celebrates a set of paintings created by Ernst from the time he first met Dorothea Tanning in 1942 until his death in 1976.  Every year Ernst gave Tanning a work for her birthday, almost always hiding the letter D for Dorothea.  Dr. Jürgen Pech examines all 36 "D-paintings" together with important contemporaneous works by Tanning and numerous photographs, letters, and other documents in a fully illustrated double biography that portrays their extraordinary love story.

We are looking for information about a number of paintings in the effort to fully document Dorothea Tanning's work for a catalogue raisonné. If you have seen any of these paintings, please contact us.

Concerning Wishes (1942)

Le Petit Marquis (1947)

Angel in Mauve and Orange (Study for Anges gardiens) (1947)

Les Infatigables (The Indefatigables) (1965)