Dorothea Tanning — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works140

Museum Acquisitions

Whitney

MoMA

Previous Sales 35

Sotheby's

Témoins du drame, 1947

Unknown

May 2026

Christie's

Children's Games, 1942

£4,686,000 ($6.2M USD)

Mar 2026

Sotheby's

Interior with Sudden Joy, 1951

Christie's

Sotheby's

Simplified Botany - The Sea, 1943

$207,713

Sep 2025

Sotheby's

Katchina and Her Soul, 1951

Sotheby's

Christie's

Christie's

Sotheby's

My beautiful haunted house, 1961

$142,945

Oct 2024

Christie's

Une belle langage pour naufragés, 1961

€94,500 ($104k USD)

Sep 2024

Christie's

La Descente dans la rue, 1968

€352,800 ($388k USD)

Oct 2023

Christie's

The Moonstone Effect (formerly Opale, Opale, Opale ), 1959

£378,000 ($499k USD)

Feb 2023

Christie's

Visite jaune (Visite éclair), 1960

£352,800 ($466k USD)

Feb 2023

Christie's

Le mal oublié, 1955

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Untitled (No. 9), 1965

Bought In

Mar 2022

Sotheby's

Mêlées nocturnes, 1958

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

3 poses pour séduire, 1968

Christie's

Christie's

The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1945

$1,152,500

May 2018

Christie's

A Mrs. Radcliffe Called Today, 1944

£314,500 ($415k USD)

Feb 2014

For Sale 2

Weinstein Gallery · Artsy

Avec vue sur le bosphore, 1967

US$85,000

Oil on canvas

bG Gallery · Artsy

Bateau Bleu (The Grotto), 1950

Price on request

Original Color Lithograph on Paper

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Market277 auction results

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$4.0K – $6.2M

27 of 30 paintings lots with prices

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$769K

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$553K

27 priced paintings lots

calendar_todayLast Paintings Sale

Mar 2026 · $6.2M

Latest tracked sale in this object type

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Paintings: $553K medianWorks on paper: $10.1K medianEditioned prints: $1.2K medianPosters/ephemera: $8.0K medianBooks/portfolios: $2.5K median

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Sotheby'sChristie'sTajanSwannSwann Galleries

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Publications5

Exhibition Catalog 3

Surrealistische Meisterwerke der / Chefs-d'œuvre surréalistes de la Collection Hersaint

Hatje Cantz · 2025

Dorothea Tanning Author

Yale University Press · 2024

Kunst & Textil: Stoff als Idee und Material in der Moderne von Klimt bis heute

Hatje Cantz · 2013

Survey 2

Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement

Thames & Hudson · 2021

Artists in Love

Rizzoli · 2016

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Current Exhibitions1

#2,008 Serpentine Galleries

Hail, Delerium - Prints by The...

Dorothea Tanning

London W2 3XA, UK

Jun 4, 2026 — Sep 2, 2026

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