A Night in May: The Collection of Adele & Enrico Donati
Yves Tanguy
Aux Aguets le jour
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800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
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A Night in May: The Collection of Adele & Enrico Donati
Yves Tanguy
(1900 - 1955)
Aux Aguets le jour
signed Yves Tanguy and dated 39 (lower right); signed again, titled, dated 1939 and inscribed (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
16 by 11 ¾ in.
40.5 by 30 cm.
Executed in 1939.
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery and The Arts Club of Chicago, Yves Tanguy: Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings, 1939-40, no. 6, n.p. (New York); no. 12, n.p. (Chicago)
New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy: Ring of Iron, Ring of Wool, 2023, no. 51, p. 113, illustrated in color
James W. Lane, “Plastics sans symbols: Yves Tanguy,” ARTnews, vol. XXXVIII, no. 11, 16 December 1939, p. 12, illustrated
Patrick Waldberg, Yves Tanguy, Brussels, 1977, pp. 51 and 299, illustrated (in reproduction of ARTnews, 16 December 1939); p. 339
Pierre Matisse, Yves Tanguy, Un Recueil de ses oeuvres, New York, 1963, no. 235, p. 113, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Houston, The Menil Collection and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Yves Tanguy and Surrealism, 2001, p. 195, note 36
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