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DOROTHEA TANNING (1910-2012)

En chair et en or

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DOROTHEA TANNING (1910-2012)
En chair et en or
the complete set of ten aquatints in colors, on Arches paper, 1973, each signed in pencil and numbered 42/100, published by Éditions Georges Visat, Paris, with full margins, in generally very good condition, lacking the title page, cover page and text in French by the artist
Each Image: 10 7/8 x 8 5/8 in. (276 x 218 mm.)
Each Sheet: 17 x 12 ¾ in. (432 x 324 mm.)
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Literature
Waddell & Wood Ruby 34.III-XII

Lot Essay

Including: C'est au Soleil; Á ces rites; Corps et Visage; Quoi de plus; Sur le grain; Tu; Á la nage; Parfois; Midi et demi and Weekend
"The ten etchings make use of most of the tricks and treats that I had found up to then as well as the combining and handling of color, formidably aided by Visat whose enthusiasm for these projects was nothing less than that of an accomplice. The title, En Chair et en or, plays with the French words, en chair et en os, in “flesh and bone,” as we would say in flesh and blood. I strove here for a world of cheerful carnality, a kind of equivocal goal."
Dorothea Tanning: Hail Delirium! A Catalogue Raisonné of the Artist’s Illustrated Books and Prints, 1942-1991, New York: The New York Public Library, 1992, p. 99.

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