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 Dorothea Tanning   (1910-2012)

  Petite angoisse
  • sugar-lift aquatint, aquatint and open bite printed in moderate reddish brown, moderate greenish blue, moderate greenish yellow and black, 1973-74
  • edition of 100 on Arches, signed and numbered: 1-100, also an unspecified number of proofs including 10 signed artist's proofs on Arches
  • plate size 10 15/16" x 8½" (27.8 x 21.6 cm.)
  • printed by Georges Visat, Paris
  • published by Editions Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva
  • Literature:  Dorothea Tanning: Hail, Delirium!, New York Public Library, 1992, catalog no.39, pp. 67, 99-100
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An etching for En chair et en or that was unused. Called "Small Anguish", it didn't seem to fit the joyful character I was striving for in this album. So it was published separately.
      -Dorothea Tanning, Hail, Delirium!, 1992, catalog raisonne
Dorothea Tanning - Petite angoisse - 1974 color etching

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