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La grue des sables (Nombre complexe)
Details
Yves Tanguy (1900-1955)
La grue des sables (Nombre complexe)
signed and dated 'YVES TANGUY 46' (lower right)
gouache, pen, brush and India ink over pencil on buff paper
18½ x 12½ in. (47 x 31.8 cm.)
Painted in 1946
La grue des sables (Nombre complexe)
signed and dated 'YVES TANGUY 46' (lower right)
gouache, pen, brush and India ink over pencil on buff paper
18½ x 12½ in. (47 x 31.8 cm.)
Painted in 1946
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Igor Stravinsky, Hollywood and New York.
Rex Evans Gallery, Los Angeles.
Johnson McNutt, Memphis.
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Igor Stravinsky, Hollywood and New York.
Rex Evans Gallery, Los Angeles.
Johnson McNutt, Memphis.
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
P. Matisse, Yves Tanguy, Un recueil de ses oeuvres, New York, 1963, p. 164, no. 365 (illustrated).
P. Waldberg, Yves Tanguy, Brussels, 1977, p. 348 (illustrated in color, p. 239).
P. Waldberg, Yves Tanguy, Brussels, 1977, p. 348 (illustrated in color, p. 239).
Exhibited
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Yves Tanguy, November 1946, no. 25.
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., XIX & XX Century Master Drawings and Watercolors, April-May 1985, no. 19.
Barcelona, Fundació Miró; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, and Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Klee, Tanguy, Miró: Tres Visions del Paisatge, November 1999-July 2000, p. 166, no. 73 (illustrated in color, p. 121).
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., XIX & XX Century Master Drawings and Watercolors, April-May 1985, no. 19.
Barcelona, Fundació Miró; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, and Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Klee, Tanguy, Miró: Tres Visions del Paisatge, November 1999-July 2000, p. 166, no. 73 (illustrated in color, p. 121).
Further details
fig: "Sculptures involontaires," page 68 from Minotaure (Paris, no. 3-4, 1933): photographs by Brassaï and text realized with the collaboration of Salvador Dalí