Untitled
Yves Tanguy
American, born France. 1900–1955
1942
A gouache on colored paper in which Yves Tanguy translates dream logic into a few precise, biomorphic objects—trying to make the unconscious visible as sculptural, hovering forms.
You first notice a tall, pedestal‑like silhouette topped by a drooping, clothlike appendage and balanced by a smaller, podlike shape, all drawn in spare, vivid blue that seems to float on the muted gray sheet.
Made during his American period, this piece embodies Surrealist automatism and Tanguy’s knack for turning amorphous inner images into archetypal, almost architectural motifs that helped open paths to postwar biomorphic abstraction.
Medium
Gouache on colored paper
Dimensions
12 3/8 x 9 3/8" (31.4 x 23.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest
Accession
278.1963.7
Palette
Exhibitions
