About this artwork
This drawing is from an album containing fifteen drawings and watercolours which was offered for sale at the International Surrealist Exhibition, held at the New Burlington Galleries in London in 1936. It was priced at 1200 francs (approximately £15 at the time), and the revenue from the sales was intended to fund Surrealist publications. Wolfgang Paalen instigated the project, and presumably asked his friends to contribute drawings. This is the fourth of four albums. The location of the first two is unknown. The third was bought by the Surrealist collector Edward James and subsequently broken up. Roland Penrose purchased this album in 1936. Tanguy’s work is dated 1936.
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artist:Yves Tanguy (1900 - 1955) French
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title:Untitled
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date created:1936
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materials:Pencil on paper
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measurements:31.80 x 23.50 cm
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credit line:Purchased with the support of The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund, 1995
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accession number:GMA 3908
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Yves Tanguy
Yves Tanguy
Tanguy was born in Paris. He had no formal art training but decided to become a painter in 1923 after seeing two paintings by the Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico in the window of an art gallery, while riding on a bus. He had previously been in the merchant navy until 1922. Tanguy...