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J'avais déjà cet âge que j'ai
Details
Yves Tanguy (1900-1955)
J'avais déjà cet âge que j'ai
signed and dated 'YVES TANGUY 39' (lower right)
oil on canvas
17 x 14 in. (43.2 x 35.5 cm.)
Painted in November 1939
J'avais déjà cet âge que j'ai
signed and dated 'YVES TANGUY 39' (lower right)
oil on canvas
17 x 14 in. (43.2 x 35.5 cm.)
Painted in November 1939
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
P. Matisse, Yves Tanguy, Un recueil de ses oeuvres, New York, 1963, p. 114, no. 240 (illustrated).
P. Waldberg, Yves Tanguy, Brussels, 1977, p. 345 (illustrated in color, p. 183).
P. Waldberg, Yves Tanguy, Brussels, 1977, p. 345 (illustrated in color, p. 183).
Exhibited
London, Guggenheim Jeune Gallery, Yves Tanguy, July 1938, no. 8.
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Yves Tanguy, Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings, December 1939, no. 10.
San Francisco Museum of Art, Yves Tanguy, April 1940.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, and Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Der Surrealismus 1922-1942, March-September 1972, p. 86, no. 438 (illustrated).
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, and New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Yves Tanguy: A Retrospective, June 1982-February 1983, p. 122, no. 78 (illustrated in color; p. 19 in the New York catalogue).
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, and Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Klee, Tanguy, Miró: Tres Visions del Paisatge, November 1999-July 2000, p. 166, no. 46 (illustrated in color, p. 89).
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Yves Tanguy, Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings, December 1939, no. 10.
San Francisco Museum of Art, Yves Tanguy, April 1940.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, and Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Der Surrealismus 1922-1942, March-September 1972, p. 86, no. 438 (illustrated).
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, and New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Yves Tanguy: A Retrospective, June 1982-February 1983, p. 122, no. 78 (illustrated in color; p. 19 in the New York catalogue).
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, and Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Klee, Tanguy, Miró: Tres Visions del Paisatge, November 1999-July 2000, p. 166, no. 46 (illustrated in color, p. 89).
Further details
Les noces chimiques (Chemical Wedding), 1925, Private Collection, Courtesy of the Menil Collection, Houston (photograph by Paul Hester, Houston)