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Oct 5, 2011

Untitled

c. 1939

Yves Tanguy

(French, 1900–1955)

France, 20th century

Gouache with some incised lines drawn in metal point

Support: Off-white (probably wove) paper mounted on gray board

Sheet: 31.9 x 24.6 cm (12 9/16 x 9 11/16 in.); Secondary Support: 44.6 x 36.6 cm (17 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.)

Bequest of Lockwood Thompson 1992.283

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not on view

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This drawing was made around the time that Yves Tanguy fled Europe for the United States, in November 1939, following the outbreak of World War II.

Description

Yves Tanguy developed an interest in the surrealist movement during the early decades of the 20th century, creating vague but evocative and meticulously rendered images that suggested dreams and the subconscious. Using smoothly applied color, Tanguy painted enigmatic biomorphic forms that often suggest human or animal figures and cast dramatic shadows throughout the composition. These shapes are found in the present drawing, within a sparse setting. The gray background tones suggest underwater depths, and could relate to the artist's experience in the Merchant Navy during World War I.

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Inscription

inscribed by artist, lower right, in black gouache: A Madame Jeanne Bucher, / avec La gratitude / d'yves tanguy. 39

Provenance

probably 1939-?

Jeanne Bucher, Paris ¹

?-?

(possibly Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, probably sold to Lockwood Thompson)

by 1979-1992

Lockwood Thompson [1901-1992], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH ²

1992-

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Provenance Footnotes

¹inscribed to her by Tanguy

²Thompson may have purchased the work directly from the gallery since he frequently bought from Paris and London galleries -- Galerie Jeanne Bucher owned other works by Tanguy as late as 1963 (according to Kay Sage's catalogue raisonné of that year); since the Cleveland drawing does not appear in the 1963 catalogue, Thompson may have owned it by that time, unbeknown to Tanguy's wife, Kay Sage.

Citations

Lawrence, Michael G. Surrealism in Perspective. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979. Mentioned: p. 34

"Catalogue." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 1 (January 1993): 65-73. Mentioned: p. 75, no. 317

DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. Mentioned: p. 11, pp. 262-263, 298; Reproduced: p. 263

Exhibition history

Surrealism in Perspective. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 3, 1979 - January 6, 1980).

Contemporary Drawings. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 13 - August 3, 1975).

Exposition Yves Tanguy. Galerie Jeanne Bucher-Myrbor, Paris (May 17 - May 30, 1938).
Possibly included.

Surrealism in Perspective. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 3, 1979-January 6, 1980).

Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).

French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).

Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

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