LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

21.06 in. (53.50 cm.) (height) by 29.13 in. (74.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Yves Tanguy and dated 41 (lower right)

Exhibited:

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, In Memoriam: an Exhibition of Paintings for under $1000, 1942, no. 57 (titled as Poetic Landscape) New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Yves Tanguy, 1942, no. 7 Cincinnati, Cincinnati Modern Art Society, 12 Surrealists, 1943 New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, European Artists in America, 1945, no. 127 Paris, Galerie Daniel Malingue, Yves Tanguy, 2002, illustrated in color in the catalogue Rome, Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano, Dada e Surrealismo Riscoperti, 2009-10, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature:

A. Everett Austin, Art News, no. 3, vol. 41, 1942, illustrated p. 12 (titled Poetic Landscape) André Breton, Yves Tanguy, New York, 1946, illustrated p. 56 Kay Sage & Pierre Matisse (ed.), Yves Tanguy. Un Recueil de ses œuvres / A Summary of his Works, New York, 1963, no. 273, illustrated p. 123 Patrick Waldberg, Yves Tanguy, Brussels, 1977, illustrated p. 196

Provenance:

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired in September or October 1941) Comtesse de Montferrier (acquired from the above on 3rd October 1945) Berggruen & Cie., Paris Jacques Ulmann, Paris (acquired by 1963) Private Collection, France (by descent from the above) E. V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York Private Collection, France (acquired from the above. Sold: Sotheby's, London, 19th June 2007, lot 36) Private Collection, Europe (purchased at the above sale. Sold: Sotheby’s, London, 8th February 2012, lot 23) Purchased at the above sale by the present owner