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Yves Tanguy

Sans titre (Taille de guêpe)

Lot Closed

March 26, 12:18 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Yves Tanguy

1900 - 1955

Sans titre (Taille de guêpe)


signed YVES TANGUY and dated 45 (lower right)

gouache, brush and ink and pencil on paper

55.9 by 28.3cm., 22 by 11 1/8 in.

Framed: 87 by 60cm., 34 1/4 by 23 5/8 in.

Executed in 1945.

Pierre Matisse, New York (acquired from the artist; until at least 1987)

Pierre-Noël Matisse (by descent from the above. Sold: Christie's, New York, 4th November 2010, lot 197)

Triton Collection Foundation, The Netherlands (purchased at the above sale. Sold: Christie's, London, 27th February 2018, lot 103)

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Yves Tanguy, November 1946, no. 3
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Gouaches and Drawings by Yves Tanguy, 1963, no. 17, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, First Showing of Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, 1967-68, no. 64, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Yves Tanguy, Rétrospective 1925-1955, 1982, no. 100, illustrated in the catalogue; this exhibition later travelled to Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1982-83, no. 87, illustrated in the catalogue; and New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1983, no. 100, illustrated in the catalogue
California, Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art & Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism Into Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper 1938-1948, 1986-87, no. 135, illustrated in the catalogue
Rotterdam, Kunsthal, Avant-gardes: De collectie van de Triton Foundation, 2013
Pierre Matisse, Yves Tanguy, Un Recueil de ses oeuvres, New York, 1963, no. 356, illustrated p. 159
Jean Saucet & Daniel Marchesseau, Yves Tanguy, Paris, 1973, illustrated n.p.
Patrick Waldberg, Yves Tanguy, Brussels, 1977, n.n., mentioned p. 340, illustrated p. 57
K. Iwaya, 'Yves Tanguy, 1900-55', in Mizue, no. 927, Tokyo, Summer 1983, n.n., illustrated p. 30
Renäe Riese Hubert, Magnifying Mirrors: Women, Surrealism & Partnership, Lincoln & London, 1994, n.n., illustrated p. 192 (as dating from 1946)
Sjraar van Heugten, Avant-gardes: 1870 to the present, The Collection of the Triton Foundation, Brussels, 2012, n.n., mentioned p. 565, illustrated p. 325