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"tombstone": "Untitled, c. 1939. Yves Tanguy (French, 1900\u20131955). Gouache with some incised lines drawn in metal point; sheet: 31.9 x 24.6 cm (12 9/16 x 9 11/16 in.); secondary support: 44.6 x 36.6 cm (17 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Lockwood Thompson, 1992.283. \u00a9 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "Untitled",
"creation_date": "c. 1939",
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"creation_date_latest": 1944,
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"France, 20th century"
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"technique": "Gouache with some incised lines drawn in metal point",
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"department": "Drawings",
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"type": "Drawing",
"measurements": "Sheet: 31.9 x 24.6 cm (12 9/16 x 9 11/16 in.); Secondary Support: 44.6 x 36.6 cm (17 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.)",
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"copyright": "\u00a9 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"inscription": "inscribed by artist, lower right, in black gouache: A Madame Jeanne Bucher, / avec La gratitude / d'yves tanguy. 39",
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{
"id": 304405,
"title": "Surrealism in Perspective",
"description": "Surrealism in Perspective. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 3, 1979-January 6, 1980).",
"opening_date": "1979-10-03T04:00:00"
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"id": 311552,
"title": "Selected Acquisitions",
"description": "Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).",
"opening_date": "1993-02-09T05:00:00"
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"id": 311635,
"title": "French Drawings from the Collection",
"description": "French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).",
"opening_date": "1994-12-13T05:00:00"
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"id": 192019,
"title": "Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).",
"opening_date": "2000-08-27T00:00:00"
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"description": "Surrealism in Perspective. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 3, 1979 - January 6, 1980).",
"opening_date": "1979-10-03T00:00:00"
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{
"description": "Contemporary Drawings. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 13 - August 3, 1975).",
"opening_date": "1975-06-13T00:00:00"
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"description": "Exposition Yves Tanguy. Galerie Jeanne Bucher-Myrbor, Paris (May 17 - May 30, 1938).",
"opening_date": "1938-05-17T00:00:00"
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"description": "Possibly included.",
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"description": "Jeanne Bucher, Paris",
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"footnotes": [
"inscribed to her by Tanguy
"
],
"date": "probably 1939-?",
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{
"description": "(possibly Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, probably sold to Lockwood Thompson)",
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"footnotes": null,
"date": "?-?",
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{
"description": "Lockwood Thompson [1901-1992], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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"footnotes": [
"Thompson may have purchased the work directly from the gallery since he frequently bought from Paris and London galleries -- Galerie Jeanne Bucher owned other works by Tanguy as late as 1963 (according to Kay Sage's catalogue raisonn\u00e9 of that year); since the Cleveland drawing does not appear in the 1963 catalogue, Thompson may have owned it by that time, unbeknown to Tanguy's wife, Kay Sage.
"
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"date": "by 1979-1992",
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{
"description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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"date": "1992-",
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"former_accession_numbers": [
"1065.79"
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"did_you_know": "This drawing was made around the time that Yves Tanguy fled Europe for the United States, in November 1939, following the outbreak of World War II.",
"early_education_description": null,
"artlens_description": null,
"description": "Yves Tanguy developed an interest in the surrealist movement during the early decades of the 20th century, creating vague but evocative and meticulously rendered images that suggested dreams and the subconscious. Using smoothly applied color, Tanguy painted enigmatic biomorphic forms that often suggest human or animal figures and cast dramatic shadows throughout the composition. These shapes are found in the present drawing, within a sparse setting. The gray background tones suggest underwater depths, and could relate to the artist's experience in the Merchant Navy during World War I.",
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"citations": [
{
"citation": "Lawrence, Michael G. Surrealism in Perspective. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 34",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\"Catalogue.\" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 1 (January 1993): 65-73.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 75, no. 317",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1992.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38\u201379.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 75",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388"
},
{
"citation": "DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 11, pp. 262-263, 298; Reproduced: p. 263",
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}
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"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.283",
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"creditline": "Bequest of Lockwood Thompson",
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"accession_date": "1992-12-07T00:00:00",
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"alternate_titles": [
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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:42.271000"
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