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Yves Tanguy
American, born France. 1900–1955
1939
A pencil-on-paper drawing in which Tanguy uses spare, flowing line to compose a dreamlike array of biomorphic, machine-like forms that suggest a surreal interior or landscape and aim to evoke the subconscious.
You notice first the delicate, continuous contours that conjure strange, floating objects—tables, limbs, and gadget-like appendages—that hover in an ambiguous, quietly eerie space.
The sheet exemplifies Tanguy’s Surrealist method of inventing a personal vocabulary of uncanny forms, helping to visualize the unconscious and influencing later strands of biomorphic abstraction.
Medium
Pencil on paper
Dimensions
12 3/8 x 9 1/2" (31.4 x 24.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest
Accession
433.1963
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