Tanning, Dorothea (born 1910)

The Seven Spectral Perils - First Peril   (WR6.II) color lithograph, 1950 signed in pencil lower right margin recto numbered in pencil lower left margin recto total edition of 55 on BFK Rives: hors commerce numbered 1-10, numbered 11-50, and five artist's proofs image size 14½" x 10 7/8" (36.8 x 27.4 cm.) sheet size 19 13/16" x 12 7/8" (50.4 x 32.6 cm.) published by Librairie "Le Pas Perdus", Paris printed by Desjobert assisted by Maurice Gantner, Paris Provenance:  Maurice Gantner Literature:  Dorothea Tanning: Hail, Delirium!, New York Public Library, 1992, catalog no. 6.II, pp. 23, 89 In the summer of 1949, Dorothea Tanning accompanied Max Ernst in his return to Paris. While there, Tanning worked at the legendary Atelier Desjobert where she created her first lithograph in black and white, followed by the eight color lithographs that became and remain the key pieces of her graphic oeuvre. Works from the Sept Perils Spectraux suite are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and the Pompidou. ...My first lithograph adventure has become a book. An album with seven perils in it. Because to the seven deadly deadly sins I preferred the seven spectral perils, life being more perilous than sinful. The writer [Mandiargues], a good judge of both, naturally agreed. You might say that these interrogate the stone. And the stone, like an oracle, answered sometimes with effects never possible to achieve with other materials...       -Dorothea Tanning, Hail, Delirium!, 1992, catalog raisonne

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