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 Dorothea Tanning   (1910-2012)

  Birthday
  • color lithograph after the 1942 oil on canvas, published c.1970
  • signed in pencil lower right margin recto
  • numbered in pencil from the edition of 150 lower left margin recto
  • there is also known to exist an edition of 300 on Arches paper
  • with the Arches watermark along the deckled right sheet edge
  • plate size 22½" x 14¼" (57.2 x 46.2 cm.)
  • paper size 29¼" x 21" (74.3 x 53.3 cm.)
  • printed by Mourlot, Paris
  • Literature:  Dorothea Tanning: Hail, Delirium!, New York Public Library, 1992, catalog no.68, p.106
  • Condition:  colors bright and fresh, never been framed, faint light toning to paper due to age, otherwise generally very good condition
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Here is the hand signed color lithograph of Birthday, Dorothea Tanning's best known oil painting which now hangs in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Dorothea Tanning - Birthday - 1968 color lithograph

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