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“Whatever it was she took to get in touch with her subconscious, should be sold in chemists. But she’s never spelled out what her art’s about. Never really explained what’s going on in these disturbing night fantasies of hers.” —Waldemar Januszczak

The late Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) is currently the subject of a much-lauded survey exhibition – the first for Tanning in over 25 years. Organized by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and the Tate, Dorothea Tanning: Behind the Door, Another Invisible Door ran from October 2018 to January 2019 in Madrid, and is now on view at the Tate in London until June 9, 2019. Although she famously bristled at the label ‘female artist,’ she was nonetheless groundbreaking as such, and certainly one of the greatest surrealist artists.

In this extract from his film, The Art of the Night (2011), art historian Waldemar Januszczak investigates – with no small amount of perhaps apropos melodrama – the dark surrealism of Tanning’s 1943 masterpiece Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

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