From Daumier to Olitski: Select Works from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and Family Collections

From Daumier to Olitski: Select Works from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and Family Collections

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Property from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation

Yves Tanguy

Composition

Lot Closed

September 23, 06:14 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation

Yves Tanguy

1900 - 1955

Composition


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

Gouache, pen and ink and pencil on paper

19 ¾ by 14 ½ in. (50.2 by 36.8 cm)

Framed: 27 by 21 ¼ 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, Mount Kisco, New York (acquired at the above sale in 1976)
The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, Mount Kisco, New York (gifted by the above in 2016)

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