$688,000
Yves Tanguy (French/American, 1900-1955) Un peu après [A Little Later] , 1940 Signed and dated "YVES TANGUY 40" l. r., inscribed "Yves Tanguy 'Un peu après' Pierre Matisse Gal 41 E 57" in pencil and identified on a label from Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, on the reverse. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite, 18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38.1 cm), framed. Condition: Subtle craquelure, minor retouch, minor surface grime. Provenance: Mr. Edward C. Mack and Mrs. Ruth C. Mack, New York City and New Rochelle, New York; gift to their daughter, Mary Lee Ingbar, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Literature: Yves Tanguy [November 7 to December 7, 1974], New York: Acquavella Galleries, Inc., 1974, no. 23 (illus.); Yves Tanguy: Un Recueil de ses oeuvres , New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1963, no. 259 (illus.), p. 120; European Artists in America. Whitney Museum of American Art. March 13 to April 11, 1945. (exh. cat., no. 130). Exhibitions: Yves Tanguy, November 7 to December 7, 1974, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, no. 23; European Artists in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, March 13 to April 11, 1945; Exhibition of Paintings by Yves Tanguy, Pierre Matisse Gallery, April 21 to May 9, 1942. N.B. Tanguy left France for the United States in 1939, where he developed a new painting vocabulary. He noted 'a feeling of greater space here—more 'room'' and an 'intensification of color' which the art historian Roland Penrose described as Tanguy's substitution of earth tones f
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-05-21