LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil and grattage on canvas
Size Notes:
116.1 x 89.3
Description:
Markings:
signed and dated YVES TANGUY 27
Exhibited:
Paris, Galerie Surraliste, Yves Tanguy et objets d'Amrique, May-June 1927, no. 17. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Yves Tanguy, June-October 1955 (illustrated in color, p. 31). New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage, March-December 1968, p. 242, no. 310 (illustrated, p. 102, fig. 138). New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Yves Tanguy, November-December 1974, no. 5 (illustrated in color). Paris, Muse national dart moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou and Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Yves Tanguy rtrospective, June 1982-January 1983, p. 86, no. 30 and 21, respectively (illustrated in color, p. 30). New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Yves Tanguy: A Retrospective, January-February 1983, p. 17, no. 30 (illustrated in color on the cover). Oregon, Portland Art Museum; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; New Orleans Museum of Art and Seattle Art Museum, Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, October 2015-May 2017, pp. 30 and 116 (illustrated in color, p. 117).
Literature:
Transition, September 1927, no. 6, p. 113 (illustrated).A. Breton, Le surralisme et la peinture, Paris, 1928 (illustrated, pl. 69).M. Jean, Tanguy in the Good Old Days?? in Art News, September 1955, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 30-31 (illustrated in color, p. 31).P. Matisse, Yves Tanguy: Un recueil de ses oeuvres, Paris, 1963, p. 58, no. 63 (illustrated, p. 59).W. Rubin, Dada and Surrealist Art, New York, 1969, p. 197 (illustrated in color, pl. XXVII).P. Waldberg, Yves Tanguy, Brussels, 1977, p. 75 (illustrated).S. Korb, M. Wilcox and A. Wilkie, eds., Christie's Review 1999-2000, London, 2000, p. 271 (illustrated in color).K. von Maur, Yves Tanguy or The Certainty of the Never-Seen?? in Yves Tanguy and Surrealism, exh. cat., Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 2000, p. 123 (illustrated in color, fig. 95).
Provenance:
Galerie Surraliste, Paris (acquired from the artist, 1927). Ambassador and Mrs. Henri Hoppenot, Sagon (by 1927, until 1957). Mr. and Mrs. William P. Mazer, New York (by 1963).Private collection, Tokyo (by 1982); sale, Christies, New York, 7 November 1995, lot 41. Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 8 December 1999, lot 61 (world auction record for the artist at the time of sale).Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
