Dorothea Tanning’s work explores womanhood and imaginary worlds, but only now is it getting the recognition it deserves. When the surrealist artist Max Ernst turned up at Dorothea Tanning’s ...

she met and fell in love with the painter Max Ernst, who took her to Paris, and landed in the middle of a thriving Surrealist scene alongside Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, and Pablo Picasso.

Grattage, a technique developed by German artist Max Ernst, involves scratching or scraping a still-wet painting to reveal underlying primordial layers beneath the pigment. ‘Etherea’ (2021 ...