Yves Tanguy

Untitled

1937

Sorry, no image available

Not on display

Artist: Yves Tanguy 1900–1955
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Dimensions: Frame: 409 × 537 × 25 mm
support: 85 × 240 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to Tate 2007
Reference: T12400

Display caption

Tanguy’s habitual forms appear here on a miniature scale. Painted with an assured illusionism, they remain mysterious: both stone-like and strangely bodily. This watercolour is dedicated (in miniscule script) to the British painter Norman Dawson and his wife, a friendship that seems to date from Tanguy’s solo exhibition at Guggenheim Jeune in London in 1938.

Gallery label, July 2011

Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? We would like to hear from you.