Yves Tanguy

French, 1900 - 1955

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Yves Tanguy, Untitled, 1938, etching on laid paper, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.713.2

Untitled

Yves Tanguy · 1938 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2008.115.713.2

Yves Tanguy, Untitled, 1936, gouache on brown paper laid down on board, Gift of Robert and Mercedes Eichholz, 2014.17.27

Untitled

Yves Tanguy · 1936 · gouache on brown paper laid down on board ·  Accession ID  2014.17.27

A sky streaked with azure blue stretches over a gray landscape in this surreal, vertical painting. The sky and land meet halfway up the canvas at a series of short, sharp, charcoal-gray peaks, like canine teeth. Small, diffuse, butter-yellow ovals waft above the peaks. Nine fluffy, cotton-ball like shapes cast narrow shadows across the gray-streaked plane. Three amorphous shapes float over the land closer to us. A ginger-brown, drippy form is to our left, a teal-green, bean-shaped object surrounded with fuzzy white tentacles is to our right, and a peacock-blue, L-shaped drip floats in the distance near the horizon. Thinly painted white and gray lines squiggle or sweep onto the canvas from the left edge. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower right, “Yves Tanguy 29.”
Yves Tanguy, The Look of Amber, 1929, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Fund, 1984.75.1

The Look of Amber

Yves Tanguy · 1929 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1984.75.1