id: 168182 accession number: 2009.78 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.78 updated: 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 --- culture: France, 20th century technique: oil on canvas department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Yves Tanguy (French, 1900–1955) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed and dated, lower right: "Yves Tanguy 28" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Henri Seyrig; private collection date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This painting is an example of a surrealist "dreamscape," a landscape with dream- or nightmare-like qualities. digital description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES