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Elephant Magazine

‘An Artwork that changed by Life: Dorothea Tanning, Self-Portrait, 1944’

Novelist Sophie Mackintosh reveals how a self-portrait by Dorothea Tanning, depicting a lone woman facing an uncertain future, helped her to discover the self-confidence she needed. “When I saw the painting I felt at once a deep sense of comfort and possibility”