id:			168182
accession number:	2009.78
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.78
updated:		2022-09-22 10:55:40.299000

Title Unknown, 1928. Yves Tanguy (French, 1900–1955). Oil on canvas; framed: 105.4 x 93.3 x 2.3 cm (41 1/2 x 36 3/4 x 7/8 in.); unframed: 80 x 65.4 cm (31 1/2 x 25 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2009.78 © Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

title:				Title Unknown
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creation date:			1928
creation date earliest:		1928
creation date latest:		1928
current location:		225 German Expressionism & Surrealism
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			© Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	France, 20th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Yves Tanguy (French, 1900–1955)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 105.4 x 93.3 x 2.3 cm (41 1/2 x 36 3/4 x 7/8 in.); Unframed: 80 x 65.4 cm (31 1/2 x 25 3/4 in.)
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	inscription:	signed and dated, lower right: "Yves Tanguy 28"
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Henri Seyrig; private collection
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fun fact: 
This painting is an example of a surrealist "dreamscape," a landscape with dream- or nightmare-like qualities.

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wall description: 
One of the most important and influential members of the Surrealist movement, Tanguy painted this classic, early Surrealist composition in 1928, only four years after the movement's founding and two years after he developed his mature style. It depicts a series of mysterious forms floating in a dark, dreamlike landscape. Although the objects may suggest rocks, plants, internal organs, or menacing creatures, their precise nature has been left deliberately ambiguous and mysterious. It is the very ambiguity of such forms that renders them so evocative and psychologically disturbing. While the setting may suggest the ocean floor or a lunar landscape, close inspection reveals that this "landscape" is a fictitious invention that could only exist in the irrational, dream world of the unconscious.
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