Untitled

1949

Yves Tanguy
American, born France, 1900-1955

Status: On View, Gallery 397
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Yves Tanguy
Title: Untitled
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1949
Medium: Pen and black ink, and graphite with smudging and erasing, with touches of white and pink gouache, on tan wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, lower right: "YVES TANGUY 49"
Dimensions: 50.5 × 37.3 cm (19 15/16 × 14 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
Reference Number: 2018.353
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), p. 233, cat. 114 (color ill.).

Possibly New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, “Yves Tanguy,” 1950.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections,” 1984–1985, p. 223 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Tribute to Edwin A. Bergman (1917–1986): Selections from the Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection,” 1986, pamphlet no. 54.

Sold by Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1960; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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