ID 1381151
Lot 486 | YVES TANGUY (1900-1955)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 70 000
Sans titre
gouache, pen and India ink and pencil on paper
10 7/8 x 8 3/8 in. (27.5 x 21.3 cm.)
Executed in 1946
Provenance
Alvin Greenstein, Chicago, by 1963.
Julien Levy, New York, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 5 November 1981, lot 153.
Galerie 1900-2000, Paris.
Société de Développement Artistique (SDA), France.
Dr Arthur Brandt, New York, by whom acquired from the above in September 1999; sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 21 October 2017, lot 153.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
P. Matisse & K. Sage, eds., Yves Tanguy, Un Recueil de ses œuvres, New York, 1963, no. 367, p. 164 (illustrated; with incorrect medium).
P. Waldberg & A. de Rache, eds., Yves Tanguy, Brussels, 1977, p. 234 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Artcurial, L'aventure Surréaliste autour d'André Breton, May - July 1986, p. 164 (illustrated p. 99; titled 'Composition' and with incorrect medium).
Paris, Artcurial, Papiers de peintres, Papiers de sculpteurs, March - May 1991 (with incorrect medium).
New York, Kagan Martos Gallery, Painting Generation 1920-2000, 2000.
Boone, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, The Omnipotent Dream: Man Ray, Confluences and Influences, October - December 2003.
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection, October - December 2006, p. 147 (illustrated; with incorrect medium).
Quimper, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Yves Tanguy, l'univers surréaliste, June - September 2007, no. 182, p. 184 (illustrated; with incorrect medium); this exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, October 2007 - January 2008.
| Artist: | Yves Tanguy (1900 - 1955) |
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| Applied technique: | Gouache |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Art style: | Abstract art, Modern art, Surrealism |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Yves Tanguy (1900 - 1955) |
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| Applied technique: | Gouache |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Art style: | Abstract art, Modern art, Surrealism |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Address of auction |
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