Details
Yves Tanguy (1900-1955)
L'orpailleuse
signed 'YVES TANGUY' and indistinctly dated (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 15¼ in. (46 x 38.8 cm.)
Painted in 1945
Provenance
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. 156, no. 341 (illustrated).
P. Waldberg, Yves Tanguy, Brussels, 1977, p. 348 (illustrated, p. 243).
Exhibited
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Yves Tanguy, November 1946, no. 19.
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Contemporary American Expositions, 1948, no. 1475.
Beverly Hills, Copley Galleries, Yves Tanguy, Paintings and Gouaches, winter 1948.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Yves Tanguy, September-October 1955, p. 53 (illustrated).
Barcelona, Fundació Joan 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. 69 (illustrated in color, p. 116).
Further details
Yves Tanguy in his studio (photo D. Bellon)

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