Sans titre

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Yves Tanguy
Sans titre
1931

About the Item

"Sans titre" is a painting by Surrealist Yves Tanguy. The painting on glass is signed lower right, "Yves Tanguy 31". The framed piece measures 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 1 3/8 in. By 1927, two years after aligning himself with Andre Breton, Yves Tanguy began painting the dream-like landscapes that would establish him as a major figure within the Surrealist movement. The present example, painted in 1931, is a rare, if not unique, oil on glass painted uncharacteristically on its frontside rather than in the long-held Germanic tradition of hintermalerei, or ‘reverse’ painting on verso. Characteristic of Tanguy’s meticulously-drawn biomorphic forms set within what has come to be known as a ‘mindscape,’ Sans titre illustrates the formal commonalities he shares with Salvador Dalí. But unlike Dalí’s grotesque distortions and mutilations, Tanguy preferred to ‘veil’ the figure by shifting from a literal outline to an abstracted one that was suggested but radically simplified and abstracted. Staged against a deep foreground with a plain and ambiguous horizon, this Sans titre embraces ethereality with the presence of objects floating upwards as if metaphors for dreams arising in the unconscious. Provenance: Christie's London: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 [Lot 00123] Private Collection, acquired from the above sale Sotheby's New York: Tuesday, November 4, 2014 [Lot 00046] Private Collection, acquired from the above sale Exhibitions: Paris, Galerie André-François Petit, Hans Bellmer, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Francis Picabia, Yves Tanguy, 1963 (illustrated) London, Courtauld Gallery, Modernist Art from the Emery Collection, July - August 1999, no. 9 (illustrated p. 27); this exhibition later travelled to Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, September - November 1999 Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Yves Tanguy and Surrealism, December 2000 - April 2001, no. 63 (illustrated) Cheltenham, Art Gallery & Museum, Surrealism Returns, September - November 2008, no. 11 Edinburgh, The Dean Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Another World: Dalí, Magritte, Miró and the Surrealists, July 2010 - January 2011 Literature: P. Matisse, Yves Tanguy, Un Recueil de ses oeuvres, A Summary of his Works, New York, 1963, no. 123 (illustrated p. 80) D. Marchesseau, Yves Tanguy, Paris, 1973, p. 32 (illustrated) S. Alexandrian, Dictionnaire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1973, p. 59 (illustrated) P. Waldberg, Yves Tanguy, Brussels, 1977, p. 167 (illustrated)

Creator:
Yves Tanguy (1900-1955, American)
Creation Year:
1931
Dimensions:
Height: 7.5 in (19.05 cm)Width: 7.5 in (19.05 cm)
Medium:
Glass,Oil
Movement & Style:
Surrealist
Period:
1930-1939
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Palm Desert, CA
Reference Number:
Seller: 427291stDibs: LU9311475612