Sixth Peril (Sixième péril) from The 7 Spectral Perils (Les 7 périls spectraux)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1950
- Dimensions
- composition: 14 3/16 × 10 13/16" (36 × 27.5 cm); sheet: 19 7/8 × 12 11/16" (50.5 × 32.3 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Dorothea Tanning
Artist
Painting
“Anything that is ordinary and frequent is uninteresting to me,” remarked artist Dorothea Tanning, whose paintings, installations, stage designs and poems were populated by tentacled sunflowers, anthropomorphized divans, stag-headed ballerinas, newlywed werewolves and other curious denizens of the subconscious.
New York, USA and Paris, France
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Events
1982 · Watercolor and graphite with charcoal on off-white wove paper
Green Park
1982 · Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Notes for an Apocalypse
1978 · Oil on canvas
Nue couchée
1969 · Cotton textile, cardboard, 7 table tennis balls, wool and thread
Pincushion to Serve as Fetish
1965 · Velvet, plastic funnel, metal pins, sawdust and wool
Dogs of Cythera
1963 · Oil on canvas
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- Dorothea Tanning
- Year
- 1950
- Dimensions
- composition: 14 3/16 × 10 13/16" (36 × 27.5 cm); sheet: 19 7/8 × 12 11/16" (50.5 × 32.3 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1950-M081810
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified