YVES TANGUY | COMPOSITION

Auction Closed

June 29, 05:15 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

PROPERTY FROM THE WILLIAM LOUIS-DREYFUS FOUNDATION & FAMILY COLLECTIONS

YVES TANGUY

1900 - 1955

COMPOSITION

Signed Yves Tanguy, dated 50 and dedicated à Maria. (lower right)

Gouache, pen and ink and pencil on paper

19¾ by 14½ in. (50.2 by 36.8 cm)

Framed: 27 by 21¼ in. (68.6 by 54 cm)

Executed in 1950.

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York

Gertrude Stein Gallery, New York

M. Knoedler & Co., New York (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, October 21, 1976, lot 154)

William Louis-Dreyfus, Mt. Kisco, New York (acquired at the above sale)

A gift from the above to The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation in 2016

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Surrealism in Art, 1975, no. 125, illustrated in the catalogue