Yves Tanguy (1900-1955)

Sans titre (Drawing for VIEW)

Details

Yves Tanguy (1900-1955)
Sans titre (Drawing for VIEW)
signed and dated 'YVES TANGUY 42 WY' (lower right)
brush and India ink on buff paper
12¼ x 9½ in. (31.1 x 24.1 cm.)
Drawn in 1942

Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Exhibition of Gouaches and Drawings by Yves Tanguy, March-April 1963, no. 44 (illustrated).
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. 62 (illustrated in color, p. 108).

Lot Essay

The present drawing is one of a series of twelve Tanguy drawings created for possible reproduction in a special double issue of Charles Henri Ford's VIEW magazine (May 1942) dedicated to the work of Tanguy and Pavel Tchelitchew. The inscription "WY" may refer to Woodbury, Connecticut, where Tanguy and his wife Kay Sage moved earlier that year.

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