TANNING Dorothea. - Lot 298

TANNING Dorothea. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED WITH TWO ORIGINAL COLLAGES to Dear Joe [BOUSQUET]. July 25, 1948. 2 pages in-4. Autograph letter in English illustrated with two original collages, in which Dorothea Tanning relates her visit to New York for an exhibition of her paintings and talks about her life in Arizona with Max Ernst. ... Now we are back in Arizona and very happy to resume our tranquil sunny life once more. Max has a separate studio where he goes every day (just a few steps) to perform his special kind of alchemies in paint. I am in my own studio, hesitating a little before I commence to paint again. There are so many painters! and in this country there is another whelming vogue for abstract painting - abstractivism à l'américain, Max calls it.