En Chair Et En Or

About The Artist: Dorothea Tanning

Born in Galesburg, Illinois, Tanning lived in [France] for twenty-eight years. Having moved to New York, she exhibited with the Julien Levy Gallery prior to meeting the German painter Max Ernst in 1942. She married Ernst four years later, in a double wedding with Man Ray and Juliette Browner. Tanning thus became Ernst's fourth wife, after Luise Straus-Ernst in 1918, Marie-Berthe Aurenche in 1927, and Peggy Guggenheim in 1942. Ernst introduced...