LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

38.98 in. (99.00 cm.) (height) by 32.20 in. (81.80 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Painting in the United States, October - December 1948 (illustrated pl. 87). New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Yves Tanguy: Exhibition of Paintings, Gouaches and Drawings, April 1950, no. 1. San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, The San Francisco Collectors, September - October 1965. Turin, Galleria Galatea, Yves Tanguy, April - May 1971. New York, L & M Arts, Calder Tanguy, Between Surrealism and abstraction, April - July 2010, p. 177 (illustrated p. 133).

Literature:

P. Matisse, Yves Tanguy, Un recueil de ses oeuvres, A Summary of his Works, New York, 1963, no. 402 (illustrated p. 173). D. Marchesseau, Yves Tanguy, Paris, 1973, p. 37 (illustrated). P. Waldberg, Yves Tanguy, Brussels, 1977, p. 221 (illustrated p. 220).

Provenance:

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York. Hugh Chisholm, Jr, Hillsborough, California, by 1949. Acquired by the father of the present owner circa 1965.