Some Roses and Their Phantoms - Dorothea Tanning
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A 1952 surrealist still life by Dorothea Tanning, featuring distorted, paper-like rose forms arranged on a stark white tablecloth against a dark, atmospheric background.
Dorothea Tanning created Some Roses and Their Phantoms in 1952, a period when her work moved away from the explicit narrative scenes of her earlier career toward a more ambiguous, psychological exploration of form. The painting presents a table covered in a white cloth, upon which sit several objects that resemble roses, yet possess a distorted, sculptural quality. These forms appear to be made of paper or fabric, their petals folded and crumpled into shapes that defy natural botanical growth.
The composition is divided between the stark, grid-like white of the tablecloth and the murky, atmospheric brown of the background. This contrast creates a sense of displacement, as if the objects exist in a space between reality and a dream state. Tanning uses a muted palette, relying on shadows and highlights to give the objects a three-dimensional, almost tactile presence. The title suggests a duality: the roses are present as physical objects, yet they are also ghosts or phantoms of their own identity.
Unlike the more aggressive or overtly symbolic works of her contemporaries, Tanning focuses here on the uncanny nature of the everyday. The objects are not merely still-life subjects; they are entities that seem to possess their own internal logic. The painting invites the viewer to question the stability of the physical world. By rendering these organic forms as artificial, crumpled structures, Tanning disrupts the traditional expectations of the still-life genre. The work remains a characteristic example of her ability to manipulate space and light to evoke a sense of mystery, demonstrating her technical precision and her interest in the subconscious mind.
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
- Canvas: XS (20×30 cm) to Large (60×90 cm)
- Frames: black, natural wood, dark wood or white
Some Roses and Their Phantoms - Dorothea Tanning
Artist Biography
Dorothea Tanning
She was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1910 and left for New York at twenty with twenty-five dollars. Her painting Birthday (1942) is a self-portrait: bare-torsoed, standing beside an infinite row of open doors, with a winged creature at her feet. Max Ernst saw it when he visited her studio. They married in 1946 in a double wedding with Man Ray and Juliet Browner. They lived first in Sedona, Arizona, then in Huismes, France, for decades. After Ernst died in 1976, she returned to New York.
She was published in The Yale Review, Poetry, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker, as a poet. She also wrote a memoir (Birthday, 1986), a novel (Chasm: A Weekend, 2004), and a second memoir (Between Lives, 2001). She endowed the Wallace Stevens Award at the Academy of American Poets. She died in 2012, in her Manhattan home, aged a hundred and one.
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