Dorothea Tanning

Aux environs de Paris (Paris and Vicinity)

1962

Smoky, swirling abstract painting with dark shapes and glowing red and blue highlights suggesting figures.
Smoky, swirling abstract painting with dark shapes and glowing red and blue highlights suggesting figures.

Dorothea Tanning, Aux environs de Paris (Paris and Vicinity), 1962. Oil on linen, overall: 100 1/2 × 78 5/8 in. (255.3 × 199.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Alexander Iolas Gallery 65.30. © The Dorothea Tanning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Date
1962

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on linen

Dimensions
Overall: 100 1/2 × 78 5/8 in. (255.3 × 199.7 cm)

Accession number
65.30

Credit line
Gift of the Alexander Iolas Gallery

Rights and reproductions
© The Dorothea Tanning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/3025





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