Dorothea Tanning (Galesburg Illinois, 1910 - New York, 2012) The Three Bitches, 1953 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right "Dorothea Tanning 53", titled lower centre "Les trois garces". Annotated "N°23" on the back 65 x 54 cm Provenance : - Henri Creuzevault Collection, Paris - Collection Colette Creuzevault, Paris (by descent) - Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn Collection, Paris Exhibitions : - Paris, Galerie Furstenberg, "Dorothea Tanning. Peintures 1949-1954", 7 - 30 May 1954, described in catalogue no. 16 - Lima, Galeria de Lima, "Surrealismo", July 1954, exhibited under the title "Le tre virago". - London, Arthur Jeffress Pictures, "Dorothea Tanning", 22 February - 19 March 1955, reproduced in catalogue no. 6, exhibited under the title "The Three Graces". - Knokke-Le-Zoute, Casino Communale, "Dorothea Tanning : XXème Festival Belge d'Été", June - August 1967 - Tochigi, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, "Floating Images of Women in Art History", 20 July - 28 September 1997 Bibliography : - Hommage à Dorothea Tanning", XXème siècle, Numéro Spécial, Paris, 1977, reproduced in the catalogue p. 109 - C. McAra, "A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm", ed. Routledge, London, 2017, described in the catalogue under n°4.2 p. 91 and reproduced on p. 90 - V. Carruthers, "Dorothea Tanning: Transformations", Ed. Lund Humphries, London, 2020, described in the catalogue p. 96 and reproduced fig. 77 p. 97 We would like to thank Pamela S. Johnson for her kind contribution. Note: this work was painted in Paris.