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.a: Untitled, .b: Untitled

.a: Untitled, .b: Untitled

André Breton
French, 1896–1966
Yves Tanguy
American, born France. 1900–1955
1941
A pencil drawing on colored paper in which Yves Tanguy composes a compact cluster of biomorphic, machine‑like shapes to evoke a surreal, dreamlike landscape.
You first notice a spare, continuous graphite line mapping interlocking amoeboid forms and peglike appendages that hover above a flattened base against the warm red ground.
Rooted in Surrealism, this kind of invented topography made psychological, nonrepresentational space visible and helped extend a visual language that influenced mid‑century abstraction and surrealist practice.
Medium
.a: Pencil on colored paper .b: Gouache on colored paper
Dimensions
10 7/8 x 8 3/8" (27.8 x 21.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Kay Sage Tanguy
Accession
346.1955.16a-b
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