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Don Juan´s Breakfast
© Dorothéa Tanning/Bildupphovsrätt 2026
Don Juan´s Breakfast
Don Juan´s Breakfast
Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

Don Juan´s Breakfast

by Dorothéa Tanning
Artist (USA, 1910 - 2012)
Alternate Title
  • Don Juans frukost
Date1972
Dimensions50 x 33 x 26cm
Classification
Credit LineDonation 2006 från konstnären (Det andra önskemuseet)
On view
Stockholm
RoomGallery 01:1
Object NumberMOM/2006/312
CollectionsThe Second Museum of Our Wishes
About the artwork From the late 1920s to the early 1940s, Dorothea Tanning belonged to the surrealists, examining the absurdities of everyday life in works of art that often had a sexual undercurrent. In Don Juan’s Breakfast, the title suggests the lover’s morning after. His breakfast consists of a beer mug made of sensual fabrics. A row of buttons holds it together, and something resembling flesh peeks out between them, while the froth brims over. Tanning rejected being called a woman surrealist. She often said that the forces that inspired her to work as an artist, and the ones that kept her going, all related to being a human being, not a woman. Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad på undre sidan med tuschpenna: "Dorothea Tanning" Selected exhibition history Supersurrealismen (den 29 september 2012 - den 27 januari 2013) Moderna Museet Malmö Den underjordiska himlen. Surrealism i Moderna Museets samling (den 26 oktober 2024 - den 17 januari 2027) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Om det absurda (den 26 oktober 2024 - den 23 februari 2025) Moderna Museet Malmö The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Det andra önskemuseet : [Moderna Museet]