.a: Untitled (1938), .b: La Maison D'Yves Tanguy (1939)
André Breton
French, 1896–1966
Yves Tanguy
American, born France. 1900–1955
1941
A compact collage-drawing in ink and cut-and-pasted printed paper on colored paper, in which Breton pastes a printed ‘1938’ and overlays a slanted handwritten note to compress date, memory, and associative thought into a single plane.
The flat rose sheet is pierced visually by a small dark plaque reading “1938” at the top and a thin diagonal line of delicate handwriting that slices the page, while torn edges and a tiny notch make the sheet feel intimate and lived-in.
An example of Breton’s Surrealist mix of text and image, this paperwork turns a typographic fragment and automatic script into a poetic assemblage that collapses chronology, chance, and memory and influenced later paper-based collage practices.
Medium
.a: Ink and cut-and-pasted printed paper on colored paper
.b: Ink and cut-and-pasted printed paper on colored paper
Dimensions
10 7/8 x 8 3/8" (27.7 x 21.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Kay Sage Tanguy
Accession
346.1955.20a-b
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