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Title Unknown

1928

Yves Tanguy

(French, 1900–1955)
Culture
France, 20th century
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 105.4 x 93.3 x 2.3 cm (41 1/2 x 36 3/4 x 7/8 in.); Unframed: 80 x 65.4 cm (31 1/2 x 25 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 2009.78
Copyright
© Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
225 German Expressionism & Surrealism
Print
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This painting is an example of a Surrealist "dreamscape," a landscape with dreamlike or nightmarish qualities.

Description

One of the most influential members of the Surrealist movement, Yves Tanguy painted this composition only four years after the movement was founded and two years after he developed his mature style. The composition depicts a series of mysterious forms floating in a dark, dreamlike landscape. Although the objects could indicate rocks, plants, internal organs, or menacing creatures, Tanguy deliberately ensures that the forms remain mysterious. The setting may suggest the ocean floor or a lunar landscape; it, like the objects that seem to animate the scene, is left up to the viewer to interpret according to their own imagination.
Oil painting of thin rocky forms scattered on a smoky grey background. They cast shadows diagonally from left to right. Between some of them fine, pale threads are suspended, also pulled diagonally to the right. In the upper left corner diagonals of rock-like ovals emerge from cloudy white strokes.

Title Unknown

1928

Yves Tanguy

(French, 1900–1955)
France, 20th century

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