Dorothea Tanning’s Brazen, Bizarre Flower Paintings
Louisa Buck, The Telegraph
September 2016
In June 1997, the 86-year-old Dorothea Tanning embarked upon what was to be her final series of 12 enormous flower paintings, which she made over the ensuing 12 months. Six of these fantastical, hybrid blooms which Tanning described as her “foray into imaginary botany” remained with the artist until her death 15 years later in 2012, at the age of 101. Now they have been reunited at Alison Jacques Gallery, along with the smaller preliminary pencil sketches that she considered to be her “touchstones on the way to the flowers”. […]