DOROTHEA TANNING muere a los 101 años

Dorothea Tanning, pintora americana de aire surrealista, ha fallecido a los 101 años. Se caso con max Ernst, que rompió así su relación con Peggy Guggeheim, y que previamente estaba relacionado con Leonora Carrington. 
Abandonaron Nueva York para establecerse en Arizona. Volvería a Francia con Max Ernst, visitando la casa de Sint Martin d´Ardeche, donde Max y Leonora vivieron momentos felices de creación y sus separación obligada durante la invasión nazi de Francia.
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Dorothea Tanning 1910 - 2012

Dorothea Tanning in her studio with the painting Maternity, photo courtesy of Lee Miller Archives, England. We at Frey Norris were saddened this morning to learn of the passing of Dorothea Tanning in her sleep last night. Dorothea lived more than a century and experienced first hand all the adventures, travails and accomplishments any artist could hope for in her life. MoMA in New York acknowledged her art by finally acquiring a painting about two years ago, just prior to an exhibition for her at The Drawing Center. In her 101 years, Dorothea lived two centuries worth of life. And she left to all of us an enormously rich and varied legacy of art; paintings, sculptures, poetry and one of the most entertaining artist biographies around. Wife to Max Ernst, close friend to poets like Octavio Paz and the choreographer Merce Cunningham, Tanning transcended easily all the categories she felt were inflicted on her by a world too tightly clinging to the false safeties of constant characterization. She disliked no category more than “woman artist,” but we think would have nevertheless been awed by the exhibition In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, currently on display at LACMA, which features prominently so many of her paintings and soft sculptures. Our thoughts and good wishes are with her family at this time of transition. Thank you Dorothea for the many sources of inspiration you have left us. Rest in peace. Wendi and Raman