This is Tanning's most famous sculpture. It may not be a literal dream, but it's about dreams--or their repression! For years Tanning painted images like Children's Games, where little girls tear the wallpaper off to free strange bulging flesh... but here, it's bursting through the walls and out of the furniture, all on its own. Life-size. Whatever it is.

More related Tanning art: Palaestra (caution, even kinkier vibe), the famous Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, and maybe Avatar.

IMAGE SOURCE: Dorothea Tanning ed. by Alyce Mahon (2018), p.168-9.

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