Lot 155
  • 155

Yves Tanguy

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
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Description

  • Yves Tanguy
  • Standing figure
  • YVES TANGUY and dated 43 (lower right)
  • ink on paper
  • 35.9 x 20.3 cm; 14 1/8 x 9 in. (visible dimensions)

Provenance

Brook Street Gallery, London
Auslander Gallery, New York
Le Monde Gallery, New York
Lester Avnet, New York (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, March 18, 1976, lot 132)
Private collection (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, New York, October 20, 1977, lot 152)
Private collection, California
Sale: Phillips, New York, May 13, 1985, lot 62
Acquired at the above sale by Dr. Arthur Brandt

Exhibited

New York, Albert Loeb-Krugier Gallery, Bellmer and the Surrealists, 1968, no. 89 (possibly)
Boone, Turchin Center for the Arts, The Omnipotent Dream: Man Ray, Confluences and Influences, 2003
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection, 2006, illustrated in the catalogue p. 143
Quimper, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper; Barcelona, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Yves Tanguy l'univers surréaliste, 2007-08, no. 190, illustrated in the catalogue p. 187 (French edition)

Literature

Charles Henri Ford, Poems for painters : Duchamp, Fini, Francés, Tanguy, Tchelitchew, New York, 1945, illustrated on the cover of the book

Condition

I has been impossible to see upper and lower edges. Executed on blue laid paper, not laid down, attached to the upper corners to the backing board. There is some faint mount staining (not visible when framed). This work appears to be in very good original condition.
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