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Dorothea Tanning American, 1910-2012
Les 7 Perils Spectraux, 1950
lithograph
image/sheet: 20 1/4 x 13 1/4"
edition of 50
7 lithographs printed in colors, in portfolio case with ribbon ties, printed by Desjobert with the assistance of Maurice Gantner, title page and text by Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues
7 lithographs printed in colors, in portfolio case with ribbon ties, printed by Desjobert with the assistance of Maurice Gantner, title page and text by Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues
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...My first lithograph adventure has become a book. An album with seven perils in it. Because to the seven deadly deadly sins I preferred the seven spectral perils, life being...
...My first lithograph adventure has become a book. An album with seven perils in it. Because to the seven deadly deadly sins I preferred the seven spectral perils, life being more perilous than sinful. The writer [Mandiargues], a good judge of both, naturally agreed. You might say that these interrogate the stone. And the stone, like an oracle, answered sometimes with effects never possible to achieve with other materials...
-Dorothea Tanning, Hail, Delirium!, 1992, catalog raisonne
