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Sans titre by Yves Tanguy

Yves Tanguy

Sans titre, 1927

Oil on canvas
116.2 x 81 cm (45.75 x 31.88 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (12 Nov 2019)
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Past Sales
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Nov 12, 2019
Christie'sNew YorkImpressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale4A
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Sans titre
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

116.2 x 81 cm (45.75 x 31.88 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Signature

signed and dated 'YVES TANGUY 27' (lower right)

Provenance

(Probably) Galerie Surréaliste, Paris.

Vicomte and Vicomtesse Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles, Fontainebleau (probably acquired from the above, 1928).

André-François Petit, Paris (acquired from the above, circa 1974); sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 June 1997, lot 40.

Daniel Filipacchi, Paris (by 1999).

David Tunkl Fine Art, Los Angeles.

Acquired from the above by the late owner, 15 December 2005.

Exhibited

Knokke-Le Zoute, Casino Communal, Trésors du surréalisme, June-September 1968, p. 89, no. 128 (illustrated, p. 128).

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, The Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchni Collections, June-September 1999, p. 296, no. 225 (illustrated in color, p. 297).

Paris, Malingue, Yves Tanguy, May-July 2002, p. 22 (illustrated in color).

Literature

P. Waldberg, Surrealism, Geneva, 1962, p. 76 (illustrated in color).

P. Waldberg, The Initiators of Surrealism, Paris, 1969 (illustrated in color, pl. 26).

D. Marchesseau, Yves Tanguy, Paris, 1973, p. 13 (illustrated in color).

J.-C. Bailly, "Yves Tanguy, le silence" in XXe siècle, Le Surréalisme II, Paris, 1974, no. 43, p. 107 (illustrated in color).

G. Picon, Journal du surréalisme, 1919-1939, Geneva, 1976, p. 108, no. 2 (ilustrated in color).

P. Waldberg, Les demeures d'Hypnos, Paris, 1976, p. 253 (illustrated).

P. Waldberg, Tanguy, Paris, 1984, p. 42 (illustrated in color).

R. Le Bihan, R. Mabin and M. Sawin, Yves Tanguy, Paris, 2001, p. 44 (illustrated in color, pl. 23).

D. Tanyol, Georges Malkine–Perfect Surrealist Behavior, New York, 2014, p. 24, no. 53 (illustrated).

Description

signed and dated 'YVES TANGUY 27' (lower right)

oil on canvas

45 ¾ x 31 7/8 in. (116.3 x 81 cm.)

Painted in 1927