Through November 11
Alison Jacques Gallery
16-18 Berners Street London W1T 3LN, UK t: +4 (0)20 7631 4720
www.alisonjacquesgallery.com
Dorothea Tanning loved the Julien Levy Gallery. Born and raised in Galesburg, Illinois, the gallery and the owner himself personified everything she found alluring about the city.
“He not only dwelt in New York, occupied New York, breathed New York, possessed New York. He was New York. This was the Julien Levy I knew,” Tanning wrote in 1998.
Levy introduced Tanning to everyone involved in the American Surrealist movement during the World War II years—“Julien’s easy, smiling introductions to—as I remember them—Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, Kurt Seligmann, Kay Sage, Bob Motherwell with beauteous wife Maria, Virgil Thomson, Max Ernst, Consuelo de Saint-Exupery, Peggy Guggenheim, Sylvia Marlowe, Max Ernst.” But another introduction,…
