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Yves Tanguy

Composition

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May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Decadence & Decay: Works from an Important Private Collection

Yves Tanguy

1900 - 1955

Composition

signed Yves Tanguy and dated 47 (lower right)

gouache and watercolor on paper

14 by 11 in.

35.6 by 27.9 cm.

Executed in 1947.

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York

(probably) Mrs. Johnson McNutt, Memphis (acquired from the above)

Charles H. McNutt, Memphis

Sotheby's New York, 12 November 1988, lot 189 (consigned by the above)

Waddington Galleries, London (acquired from the above)

Baudoin Lebon, Paris

Arnold Herstand & Co., New York

Sotheby's New York, 8 November 2001, lot 283

Acquired from the above by the present owner