Yves Tanguy (1900-1955)
Property from a Private East Coast Collection
Yves Tanguy (1900-1955)

La grue des sables (Nombre complexe)

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Yves Tanguy (1900-1955)
La grue des sables (Nombre complexe)
signed and dated 'YVES TANGUY 46' (lower right)
gouache and pen and brush and India ink over pencil on buff paper
18 5/8 x 12½ in. (47.2 x 31.8 cm.)
Executed in 1946
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (by 1946).
Igor Stravinsky, New York.
Rex Evans Gallery, Los Angeles.
Johnson McNutt, Memphis.
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Private collection; sale, Christie's, New York, 10 May 2001, lot 214.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
P. Matisse, Yves Tanguy, Un recueil de ses oeuvres, New York, 1963, p. 164, no. 365 (illustrated).
P. Waldberg, Yves Tanguy, Brussels, 1977, p. 348 (illustrated in color, p. 239).
Exhibited
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Yves Tanguy, November 1946, no. 25.
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., XIX & XX Century Master Drawings and Watercolors, April-May 1985, no. 19.
Barcelona, Fundació Miró; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig and Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Klee, Tanguy, Miró, Tres Visions del Paisatge, November 1999-July 2000, p. 166, p. 121, no. 73 (illustrated in color).

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