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YVES TANGUY (1900-1955)
Le lourd palais
signed and dated 'Yves Tanguy 35' (lower right)
oil on canvasboard
10 5/8 x 13 3/4 in. (26.8 x 34.8 cm.)
Painted in 1935
Provenance
Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris.
E.L.T. Mesens, London, by 1940.
A.S. Hubbard, London.
Jacques Ulmann, Paris by 1963, and thence by descent.
Private collection.
Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco.
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 2011.
Literature
P. Matisse & K. Sage, eds., Yves Tanguy Un Recueil de ses œuvres / A Summary of his Works, New York, 1963, no. 214, p. 108 (illustrated).
P. Waldberg, Yves Tanguy Brussels, 1977, p. 339 (illustrated p. 36).
A. Cariou, Yves Tanguy L'univers surrealiste, Paris, 2007, no. 137, p. 149 (illustrated).
Exhibited
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Yves Tanguy April - June 1940, no. 813.38.
London, The London Gallery, Paintings and drawings by Yves Tanguy Work by two Scandinavian painters, Vilhelm Bjerke Petersen and Elsa Thoresen, and recent work by the English artist Samuel Hecht, May - June 1950, no. 9.
Paris, Galerie Malingue, Yves Tanguy May - July 2002, p. 44 (illustrated p. 43).
Quimper, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Yves Tanguy L’univers surréaliste, June – September 2007; this exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, October 2007 – January 2008.
San Francisco, Gallery Wendi Norris, EXPO Chicago, September 2014.
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