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Provenance: Galerie Le Point Cardinal, Paris.
Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne.
Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris.
Puis par descendance au propriétaire actuel.
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Exhibited: Paris, Galerie Mouradian-Valloton, Dorothea Tanning, Peintures 1959-1962, mai-juin 1962, no. 8 (illustré; date et dimensions erronées).
Cologne, Galerie der Spiegel, Dorothea Tanning: Bilder, Gouaches, Zeichnungen 1957-1963, juin-juillet 1963, no. 11 (illustré; titré Der Worte Genug).
Berlin, Amerika Haus, Dorothea Tanning: Bilder, Gouaches, Zeichnungen Collagen, janvier-février 1964.
Paris, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Dorothea Tanning: Oeuvres, mai-juillet 1974, no. 40, p. 86 (illustré).
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Literature: J. Michel, "L'impressionisme surréel de Dorothéa Tanning", in Le Monde, 1962.
J. C. Bailly, Dorothea Tanning, New York, 1995, p. 117, no. 82 (illustré en couleurs).
R. Howard, "Dorothea Tanning: In the Midst of Life", in Dorothea Tanning, New York, 2005, p. 50 (illustré).
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Notes: No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT payable at 19.6% (5.5% for books) will be added to the buyer’s premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis
Artist''s Resale Right ("droit de Suite"). If the Artist''s Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist''s collection agent.
Madame Dorothea Tanning a confirmé l'authenticité de cette oeuvre.
'ASSEZ CAUSE'; SIGNED AND DATED LOWER RIGHT; SIGNED, DATED AND TITLED ON THE REVERSE; OIL ON PAPER LAID DOWN ON CANVAS.