$82,950
Yves Tanguy (French/American, 1900-1955) Sans Titre , 1943 Signed and dated "YVES TANGUY 43" l. r. Gouache on paper, sheet size 2 7/8 x 13 7/8 in. (7.3 x 35.3 cm), framed. Condition: Trimmed sheet (probably by the artist) along top margin, glued along several points on the margins verso to backing mat. Provenance: Estate of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (née Braman) Grasso, Essex, Connecticut. N.B. The work is registered as no. 871-167 by the Yves Tanguy Committee of the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, and the work will be included in the forthcoming revised edition of the Yves Tanguy catalogue raisonné. Paris-born Tanguy immigrated to the United States at the onset of war in 1939 and settled in New England with his American wife, painter Kay Sage. When Tanguy was asked in 1946 about how his American work differed from his European work, he pointed to an intensification of his color palette and 'a feeling of greater space here—more 'room'.' (1) Roland Penrose elaborated on Tanguy's comment, nothing that 'his palette changed in the sense that the earth colors began to give place to more strident reds and blues and the sea mists cleared in the intense sparkling light of New England.' (2) Penrose also noted a change in style from Tanguy's animated biomorphism of the 1930s to more rigid and stark forms. The present work is punctuated with the bold colors noted, as well sharply-outlined, ossified forms which suggest that the viewer is looking at cast-offs instead of li
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-01-29