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YVES TANGUY (1900-1955)
Merveilles des mers
signed and dated 'Yves Tanguy 36' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in. (55 x 46 cm.)
Painted in 1936
Provenance
Galerie Jacques Tronche, Paris.
Private collection, France, by 1963.
Shaler collection, Darmstadt.
Michel et Susi Meyer collection, Zurich by 1969.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (no. 12884), on consignment from the above, September 1994 - June 1995.
Galerie Tessa Herold, Paris, by 2000 and until at least 2002.
Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 2014.
Literature
P. Matisse & K. Sage, eds., Yves Tanguy Un Recueil de ses oeuvres, New York, 1963, no. 176, p. 96 (illustrated).
P. Waldberg & A. De Rache, eds., Yves Tanguy Brussels, 1977, p. 337 (illustrated p. 14).
R. Le Bihan, R. Mabin & M. Sawin, Yves Tanguy Paris, 2001, p. 111 (illustrated).
G. Sebbag, Memorabilia: Constellations inaperçues: Dada & Surréalisme 1916-1970, Paris, 2010, pp. 291 & 398 (illustrated p. 290).
Exhibited
Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux- Arts, Bosch, Goya et le fantastique, May - July 1957, no. 358.
Cologne, Baukunst Galerie, Surrealismus in Europa: phantastische und visionäre Bereiche, October - November 1969, no. 141, pp. 78 and 135.
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Yves Tanguy und der Surrealismus, December 2000 - April 2001, no. 52, p. 234 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Houston, Menil Collection, June - September 2001.
Rome, Museo del Corso, Max Ernst e i suoi amici surrealsti, July - November 2002, p. 137 (illustrated p. 113; illustrated again on the back cover).
Aix-en-provence, Des duos et des couples, 2003 (illustrated).
A Coruña, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Surrealismo: Max Ernst y sus amigos surrealistas, June - September 2004, p. 130 (illustrated p. 117).
Santa Cruz Tenerife, Instituto Óscar Domínguez de arte y cultura contemporánea, Éxodo hacia el sur, 2006, no. 6, p. 185 (illustrated).
Quimper, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Yves Tanguy L’univers surréaliste, June - September 2007, no. 138, p. 150 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Musée National d'Art de Catalogne, October 2007 - January 2008.
Saint-Louis, Alsace, Espace d’Art Contemporain Fernet-Branca,?Chassé-croisé Dada-Surréaliste 1916-1969, January - July 2012, p. 55 (illustrated).
Paris, Maison de Victor Hugo La Cime du rêve: les surréalistes et Victor Hugo ?October 2013 - February 2014, no. 241, p. 177 (illustrated).
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