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Yves Tanguy

The Look of Amber, 1929

East Building, Upper Level - Gallery 415B

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 100 x 81 x 2.3 cm (39 3/8 x 31 7/8 x 7/8 in.)

framed: 128.9 x 108.3 x 6.3 cm (50 3/4 x 42 5/8 x 2 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Fund

Accession Number

1984.75.1

Artists / Makers

Yves Tanguy (artist) French, 1900 - 1955

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Copyright

Inscription

lower right: YVES TANGUY 29

Provenance

André Breton, Paris; Peter Watson, London; (The London Gallery, London); Sybil Mesens [d. 1966], Brussels; her husband E.L.T. Mesens [1903-1971], London. [1] Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Ilin, Jerusalem; purchased 1984 through (Robert Elkon Gallery, New York) by NGA.

[1] At his death, the artist and gallery director E.L.T. Mesen's collection was inherited by his cousins. A sale of part of the collection, which did not include the Tanguy, was held at Sotheby's London, 26 April 1972. Mesens was for a time the director of The London Gallery. An undated photograph in the E.L.T. Mesens papers at the Getty Research Institute is annotated "collection temporaire E.L.T. Mesens" [emphasis original] (E.L.T. Mesens papers, Getty Research Institute, Series VI:photographs, Box 20; copy NGA curatorial files)

Associated Names

Breton, André
Elkon Gallery, Robert
Ilin, Ephraim, Mr.
London Gallery, The
Mesens, Edouard Leon Theodore
Mesens, Sybil
Watson, Peter

Exhibition History

1932: Exposition d'Art Français, Tokyo, 1932, no. 46.

1936: The International Surrealist Exhibition, New Burlington Galleries, London, 1936, no. 345, as The Gaze of Amber.

1937: Trois Peintres Surrealistes, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1937.

1956: De vier boofdpunten van het surrealism, Anvers, The Netherlands, 1956.

1959: L'École de Paris dans les collections Belges, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1959, no. 146.

1967: Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark, 1967.

1967: Six Peintres Surréalistes, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1967, no. 76.

1970: L'Art en Europe Autour de 1925, L'Ancienne Douane, Strasbourg, 1970, no. 208.

1982: 50th Anniversary, Tel Aviv Museum, 1982.

1982: Yves Tanguy: Retrospektive 1925-1955, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1982-1983, no. 33, repro.

1983: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1983.

2000: Yves Tanguy and Surrealism, Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; The Menil Collection, Houston, 2000-2001, no. 33, repro.

Bibliography

1963: Yves Tanguy: A Summary of his Works. New York, 1963: no. 86, repro.

1977: Waldberg, Patrick. Yves Tanguy. Brussels, 1977:141, repro. 125.

1979: Oesterreicher-Mollwo, Marianne. Surrealism and Dadaism. Oxford, 1979:repro. 31.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 385, repro.

1989: Strick, Jeremy. Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building. Washington, D.C., 1989: repro. 48, 49.

2001: Le Bihan, René, Renée Mabin and Martica Sawin. Yves Tanguy. Quimper, 2001: repro. 30.