
Catalogue
- Medium
- Pencil on board
- Dimensions
- 18 1/8 x 13" (46 x 33.1 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Yves Tanguy
Artist

Painting
Yves Tanguy was an American painter of French origin known for densely populated biomorphic landscapes rendered in oil, often depicting impossible terrains of undulating forms and spectral voids. His work, created between the 1920s and his death in 1955, occupied a singular space within Surrealism, eschewing the movement's reliance on recognizable dreamscapes in favor of purely invented anatomies and geologies. His compositions employ a narrow, luminous palette to render architectural organisms that seem to breathe and shift across barren horizons. Though associated with the Surrealist circle, his painting method was deliberate and architectural rather than automatic, building forms through precise layering and spatial recession.
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Tailpiece from Un Poème dans chaque livre
1956 · Etching from an illustrated book with seven etchings (three with aquatint, one with aquatint, drypoint, engraving, and roulette), three drypoints (one with engraving), two aquatints, two woodcuts, one engraving, and one lithograph
Surrealist Composition with Smoking Container
1955 · Graphite, with smudging, on cream laid paper
Multiplication of the Arcs
1954 · Oil on canvas
Two Mechanical Figures
1954 · Pen and black ink, with white gouache, on cream wove paper
Untitled
1953 · Ink on paper
Thar
1952 · Gouache on gray wove paper
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- Yves Tanguy
- Medium
- Pencil on board
- Dimensions
- 18 1/8 x 13" (46 x 33.1 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-0000-M031854
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- Museum of Modern Art
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