• etching, 1953
• signed Dorothea along with an autograph note to Julien Levy verso
• proof impression aside from the editions of 50 + XXX on arches
• total edition of 50 signed and numbered on arches with Arabic numerals, 30 signed and numbered on arches with Roman numerals and an unspecified number of proofs including 2 signed color trial proofs with aquatint on Arches, 2 signed artist's proofs on Arches and 1 signed B.A.T.
• plate size 3 3/16" x 2½" (8.3 x 6 cm.)
• paper size 8" x 5½" (20 x 14 cm.)
• printed by George Visat, Paris
• Provenance:  collection of Julien Levy
• Literature:  Dorothea Tanning: Hail, Delirium!, New York Public Library, 1992, catalog no. 7, pp. 25, 89

...Now the discovery is Georges Visat, master etcher. Up two flights of worn steps to reach a room crowded with etching presses, three of them. The handles and their big wheels are thickened with years of etchers' black ink. Some of the same will soon ink my second etching, two dancers scratched into a tiny copper plate. One of them is a dog (my dog) who, over the years, shows up in many avatars, as constant as a talisman.
      -Dorothea Tanning, Hail, Delirium!, 1992, catalog raisonne


On the verso of this etching is an autograph note from Tanning to Julien Levy written in the artist's hand and signed:

Dearest
This brings loving thoughts from me and Katchina. I'm painting very simple and direct pictures - this one has been put on a rather big canvas - all sorts of blues (so I call it Blue Waltz) quite tender and free and I think you'd like it. (In the painting girl is clothed). Winter here has been sheer hell. We say "never again". Otherwise Paris is fun and we can soon have spring. I do wish you'd come this year. We could all go to Venice together where Max has a room at the Biennale.
Will write soon    xxxx
Dorothea