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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1963.42
People
Yves Tanguy, American (Paris France 1900 - 1955 Woodbury CT)
Title
Untitled
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1953
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308759

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Blue-black ink and graphite on buff card
Dimensions
56.6 x 71.5 cm (22 5/16 x 28 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper edge, graphite: K. S. T.
  • label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, typed: No. 519.63 [for 1963-64 travelling exhibition, "20th Century Master Drawings". two labels in file.]
  • inscription: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, graphite on brown kraft paper: 1816B
  • inscription: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, black marker on brown kraft paper: 3

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Yves Tanguy; to Kay Sage Tanguy, 1955(?), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1963.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Kay Sage Tanguy
Copyright
© Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1963
Object Number
1963.42
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • James Thrall Soby, Yves Tanguy, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, 1955), reproduced, p. 62
  • Sidney Simon and Emily S. Rauh, 20th Century Master Drawings, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1963), no. 116
  • Exhibition of Gouaches and Drawings by Yves Tanguy, exh. cat., Pierre Matisse Gallery (New York, NY, 1963), no. 75, reproduced
  • David Gordon Mitten, "An Arcadian in the Fogg Museum", Fogg Art Museum Newsletter, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1966), Vol. 3, No. 3, reproduced as fig. 2
  • Joseph Meder, The Mastery of Drawing, Abaris Books (New York, 1978), plate 298

Exhibition History

  • Yves Tanguy, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 09/06/1955 - 10/30/1955
  • Exhibition of Gouaches and Drawings by Yves Tanguy, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 03/26/1963 - 04/13/1963
  • 20th Century Master Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 11/06/1963 - 01/05/1964; University of Minnesota Art Gallery, Minneapolis, 02/03/1964 - 03/15/1964; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/06/1964 - 05/24/1964

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