Sixth Peril (Sixieme peril), from the portfolio The 7 Spectral Perils (Les 7 Perils Spectraux)

Dorothea Tanning, American, 1910 - 2012

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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.951.7.6

Printer

Desjobert, Paris

Publisher

Librairie Les Pas Perdus, Paris

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Dorothea Tanning; inscribed, in graphite, lower left margin: 47/50

Exhibition History

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.

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.VII.

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