YVES TANGUY "Large Painting Representing a Landscape" painting canvas not oil printed on canvas
YVES TANGUY (1900 - 1955)
Ready to be hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden underframe.
Medium: printed on canvas panel
Diagonal: 26,8" or 68 cm.
Size: 15,7" x 21,7" (in) or 40 x 55 cm.
Date: c. 1927. w / C. of Attribution.
Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas.
The size may differ from how it looks in the photo.
Color can be slightly different from the picture.
Raymond Georges
Yves Tanguy (known as just Yves Tanguy) was a French surrealist painter. Tanguy's
paintings have a unique, immediately recognizable style of nonrepresentational
surrealism. They show vast, abstract landscapes, mostly in a tightly limited
palette of colors, only occasionally showing flashes of contrasting color
accents. Typically, these alien landscapes are populated with various abstract
shapes, sometimes angular and sharp as shards of glass, sometimes with an
intriguingly organic look to them, like giant amoebae suddenly turned to stone.
Tanguy's style was an important influence on several younger painters, such as
Roberto Matta, Wolfgang Paalen, and Esteban Francés, who adopted a Surrealist
style in the 1930s. Later, Tanguy's paintings (and, less directly, those of de
Chirico) influenced the style of the French animated movie Le Roi et l'oiseau,
by Paul Grimault and Prévert. In 1938, after seeing the work of fellow artist
Kay Sage, Tanguy began a relationship which led to his second marriage. With
the outbreak of World War II, Sage moved back to her native New York, and
Tanguy, judged unfit for military service, followed her. He would spend the
rest of his life in the United States. Sage and Tanguy were married in Reno,
Nevada on August 17, 1940.
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