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.a: Les Attitudes Spectrales (1926), .b: Cinquantenaire de L'Hystérie (1927)

.a: Les Attitudes Spectrales (1926), .b: Cinquantenaire de L'Hystérie (1927)

André Breton
French, 1896–1966
Yves Tanguy
American, born France. 1900–1955
1941
A handwritten poetic manuscript page by Yves Tanguy rendered in green ink with a small pasted “1926” label, showing him using written language as an extension of his surrealist practice.
What strikes you is the tidy teal cursive filling the center of a spare cream sheet beneath a tiny stuck-on date, the text quietly framed by the black spiral notebook that holds the page.
The page reveals how Tanguy carried Surrealist automatism into writing, treating words as compositional material and linking his verbal experiments to the dreamlike forms that shaped his paintings.
Medium
.a: Ink and cut-and-pasted printed paper on paper .b: Pencil, ink, cut-and-pasted paper, and colored pencil on paper
Dimensions
10 7/8 x 8 5/8" (27.8 x 22.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Kay Sage Tanguy
Accession
346.1955.13a-b
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