.a: Âge (1916), .b: A Propos de Guillaume Apollinaire (1917)
André Breton
French, 1896–1966
Yves Tanguy
American, born France. 1900–1955
1941
A spiral-bound notebook page in ink with cut-and-pasted printed paper, where Tanguy assembles a neat, handwritten French text that gestures toward Guillaume Apollinaire and the years of the First World War.
The first thing you notice is the warm, measured brown script and a tiny boxed printed date “1916” set against a creamy page, reading like a carefully preserved fragment of someone’s private notebook.
By making handwriting and pasted ephemera the subject of a drawing, Tanguy bridges Surrealist visual practice and literary modernism, turning an intimate act of remembrance into a work that folds personal and cultural history together.
Medium
.a: Ink and cut-and-pasted printed paper
.b: Ink and cut-and-pasted printed paper
Dimensions
10 7/8 x 8 5/8" (27.8 x 22.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Kay Sage Tanguy
Accession
346.1955.7a-b
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