Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso

Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso

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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

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