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Lot 324 THE ARROGANT EYE: THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE LARRY SAPHIRE
DOROTHEA TANNING (1910-2012)
En chair et en or
Closed18 April 2019
Price Realised
USD 4,375
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Including: C'est au Soleil; Á ces rites; Corps et Visage; Quoi de plus; Sur le grain; Tu; Á la nage; Parfois; Midi et demi and Weekend
"The ten etchings make use of most of the tricks and treats that I had found up to then as well as the combining and handling of color, formidably aided by Visat whose enthusiasm for these projects was nothing less than that of an accomplice. The title, En Chair et en or, plays with the French words, en chair et en os, in “flesh and bone,” as we would say in flesh and blood. I strove here for a world of cheerful carnality, a kind of equivocal goal."
–Dorothea Tanning: Hail Delirium! A Catalogue Raisonné of the Artist’s Illustrated Books and Prints, 1942-1991, New York: The New York Public Library, 1992, p. 99.
"The ten etchings make use of most of the tricks and treats that I had found up to then as well as the combining and handling of color, formidably aided by Visat whose enthusiasm for these projects was nothing less than that of an accomplice. The title, En Chair et en or, plays with the French words, en chair et en os, in “flesh and bone,” as we would say in flesh and blood. I strove here for a world of cheerful carnality, a kind of equivocal goal."
–Dorothea Tanning: Hail Delirium! A Catalogue Raisonné of the Artist’s Illustrated Books and Prints, 1942-1991, New York: The New York Public Library, 1992, p. 99.