Dorothea Tanning: Self-Portrait mini print

Mini print of Self-Portrait, 1944, by Dorothea Tanning.

In this painting, Tanning depicts herself looking out over the vast Arizona landscape, tiny compared to the enormous rock formations and space around her. Later she wrote of the intention behind the painting: ‘In that camera-sharp place where planetary upheaval had left its signature: the now placid monuments that, as far as anyone out there cared, had been there forever, I would undertake—"dare" would be a truer word—to paint the unpaintable…. in the studio alone with my dream I would record it like a diary entry, just like that.’

Dorothea Tanning (1910 – 2012) was an American artist, writer and poet. Aside from three weeks of tuition at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art in 1930, she was entirely self-taught. Although often described as a Surrealist artist, after the 1940s Tanning moved away from surrealist themes and evolved her own personal style. She lived with her fellow artist and husband, Max Ernst, in France from 1949 until Ernst’s death in 1976. In 1980, she moved to New York, and after a decade of studio art, turned to writing and poetry in the 1990s, which she continued until her death at the age of 101.

All our mini prints measure 28 x 35.6 cm and include a white border with full artwork credit line.

Our mini prints are produced on 250 gsm matt art paper using a four colour flat-bed digital printer. We work with only UK based PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forestry Certification) and FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified suppliers for our print products.

• Artist Dorothea Tanning
• Artwork Self-Portrait, 1944
• Exhibition Dorothea Tanning
• ISBN 5032495337533