Seventh Peril (Septieme peril), from the portfolio The 7 Spectral Perils (Les 7 Perils Spectraux)
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.951.7.7
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
Course History
ARTH 89.05, Art History: Theory and Method, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Fall 2019
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 22, Leger, Tanning, and Daura: Sexuality and Surrealism, Rose McClendon, Class of 2006, Special Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 2004-January 3, 2005.
Art and/as Violence, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 12, 2006-March 11, 2007.
Representations of the Body in Space from the Renaissance to the Present: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 3-March 15, 1998.
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.
The Object World, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ARTH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 5-March 15, 2015.
Publication History
Rose McClendon, A Space for Dialogue 22, Leger, Tanning, and Daura: Sexuality and Surrealism, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2004, ill. p. 1.
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.VIII.
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