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Dorothea Tanning — My beautiful haunted house
Dorothea Tanning

My beautiful haunted house

1961

"My Beautiful Haunted House" is an oil painting by Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning that exemplifies her distinctive approach to dreamlike, psychologically charged imagery. The work features Tanning's characteristic use of luminous color and fluid forms to create an interior space that is simultaneously alluring and unsettling, blending architectural elements with organic, almost flesh like textures. Painted in the mid 20th century, the work reflects Tanning's exploration of domestic spaces as sites of psychological complexity and latent unease, central themes throughout her Surrealist practice.

Medium
oil on canvas

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Surrealism and its Legacy

October 18, 2024

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Dorothea Tanning, My beautiful haunted house, 1961

"My Beautiful Haunted House" is an oil painting by Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning that exemplifies her distinctive approach to dreamlike, psychologically charged imagery. The work features Tanning's characteristic use of luminous color and fluid forms to create an interior space that is simultaneously alluring and unsettling, blending architectural elements with organic, almost flesh like textures. Painted in the mid 20th century, the work reflects Tanning's exploration of domestic spaces as sites of psychological complexity and latent unease, central themes throughout her Surrealist practice.

Medium
oil on canvas
Year
1961
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Interior Space, Surrealism, 20th Century, Magical Realism, Mixed Media, American Artist, Dreamlike, Domestic architecture, Eerie, Oil on Canvas

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