Dorothea Tanning was born in 1910 and at 101 years of age, is still producing art in the form of poetry, writing, sets and having her work showed off in single-artist exhibitions. She is considered a surrealist artist and her later works are characterized by blurring of form and identity of her subjects. This earlier lithograph seems to have little of that - the crisply formulated female subject appears to sail towards indeterminable forces which are both inevitable and sought after.
The artist herself had to say of it, "Still at [the lithograph studio of Mr. Edmond] Desjobert, working now on three stones for three colors and making the kind of technical discoveries that every artist lives for. These are held in check by the lithographic crayon which draws them all tightly together to produce an event or an enigma, take your choice. The boat, the waves and the timepiece can take you anywhere you want to go, I thought."
Image from http://www.dorotheatanning.org
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