Lot 385
  • 385

YVES TANGUY | Sans titre

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Yves Tanguy
  • Sans titre
  • Signed Yves Tanguy and dated 36 (lower right)
  • Colored pencil and pencil on paper
  • 12 1/4 by 9 3/8  in.
  • 31.1 by 23.8 cm
  • Executed in 1936.

Provenance

Hans Berggruen, Paris
Private Collection, London (and sold: Sotheby's, London, April 16, 1975, lot 111)
William Louis-Dreyfus, Mt. Kisco, New York (acquired at the above sale)
A gift to the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation in 2016

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper. The sheet is hinged to a mount in all four corners of its verso. The sheet is slightly time-stained and slightly undulating. The medium remains strong and well-preserved. The left edge is unevenly cut and there are two tiny nicks near the center of the edge. On the verso there are remnants of previous hinges in the lower two corners. The work is in overall very good condition.
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