About This Artwork

Yves Tanguy
American, born France, 1900–1955

Untitled, 1928

Oil on wood
Each panel: 78 3/4 x 23 1/2 in. (200 x 59.7 cm)
Signed, l.r.: "YVES TANGUY.28"
Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1988.434

© 2008 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Yves Tanguy: Retrospective, 1925-1955, June 17–September 27, 1982, ill. p. 49 (detail) in French ed.; traveled to Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, October 17, 1982–January 2, 1983, ill. opp. p. 49 in German ed. (detail).

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Folding Image, March 4–September 3, 1984, no. 28.1/28.2; traveled to New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, October 11, 1984–January 6, 1985, no. 28.

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1988-89, p. 29 (ill.).

Charles F. Stuckey, French Painting, (New York, 1991), p. 266 (ill.).

James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago, 1996), p. 58 (ill.).

Ownership History

Galerie André-François Petit, Paris, by 1982–1988 [Paris 1982]; sold to the Art Institute, 1988.