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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.442
People
Yves Tanguy, American (Paris France 1900 - 1955 Woodbury CT)
Title
Abstraction
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1949
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308807

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on cream wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 50.6 x 37.5 cm (19 15/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: Yves Tanguy 49
  • label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, typed: Loan no. 66.2269

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Pierre Matisse Editions Inc., New York, New York], sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), 1953, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Copyright
© Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.442
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • American Drawings Lent by the Fogg Museum, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, 06/30/1964 - 09/30/1964
  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
  • Taste of a Connoisseur: The Paul J. Sachs Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/21/1966 - 02/26/1967

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