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Surrealism · United States

Dorothea Tanning

1910–2012 · Hotel corridors, adolescence and unease

SurrealismDomestic uncannyAdolescenceLate abstraction

The short version

Tanning's early sharp-focus surrealism gave way to soft-form sculpture and blurred, prismatic canvases across a seventy-year career.

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