The Anti-Head: Midnights for Giants (L'Antitête: Minuits pour Géants)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Yves Tanguy

Title

The Anti-Head: Midnights for Giants (L'Antitête: Minuits pour Géants)

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1949

Medium

Book with seven color etchings, with aquatint, and letterpress in black, on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Box: 15.2 × 12 × 8.7 cm (6 × 4 3/4 × 3 7/16 in.); Book: 14.2 × 11.7 × 2.2 cm (5 5/8 × 4 5/8 × 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg in memory of Bessie Kisloff Braude, Esq.

Reference Number

2014.552

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