The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Yves Tanguy
1935
(American, 1890–1976)
Image: 23.1 x 17.6 cm (9 1/8 x 6 15/16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
Gift of Lilyan and Toby Miller 1993.91
© 2013 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Location: Not on view
Description
Active in the avant-garde Dada and Surrealist movements, Man Ray was a painter and photographer who became known for his experimental photography, especially with cameraless images and solarization. While living in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s, and working as a portrait and fashion photographer, he was actively involved with collaborative projects with Surrealist painters and poets, providing images for their books and articles. In this finely crafted studio portrait, he captured the bright, alert, and convivial personality of his friend, the Surrealist painter Yves Tanguy (1900-1955). Tanguy was one of the most successful at meticulously rendering an invented geography-whether desert, marine, or lunar-populated by amorphous objects or creatures.- Schneier
- “1993 Annual Report.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (July 1994): 143–218. Mentioned: p. 161 www.jstor.orgCleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 229
- Artists Photographing Artists. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2001-February 27, 2002).The Cleveland Museum of Art; 10/13/01-2/27/02. "Artists Photographing Artists," no catalogue.CMA, September 13 - November 27, 1994: "Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, Photographs," no exhibition catalogue.
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