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If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider supporting us as a member. Join Us The epigraph to A Table of Content , Dorothea Tanning’s 2004 collection of poems, reads, “It’s hard to be always the same person.” The quote is attributed to Montaigne, but it could have just as easily come from Tanning herself.
When she died in 2012 at the age of 101, the artist left behind a body of work that included Surrealist and abstract paintings, prints, drawings, costume designs, fabric sculptures, installations, collage, and writings. It’s not so much that she defied easy categorization, but that for eight decades, she refused to be always the same artist, repeatedly pursuing new ways of expressing the unconscious. Encyclopedia: The Late Collages of Dorothea Tanning brings together 19 collaged works, most of which date from the late 1980s.
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