Dorothea Tanning

American painter, engraver, sculptor and writer, Dorothea Tanning was born in Galesburg (Illinois) in 1910 and died in New York in 2012. Settled in the latter city from the 1930s, she was first associated with the surrealist movement, which led her to settle in France in 1953. She then reoriented her work, notably around the exploration of female fantasies, and devoted herself more to engraving, with Georges Visat and Pierre Chave, in particular . She returned to the United States in the late 1970s and continued her work there, publishing, among other things, poetry until her death at the age of 101.