Lot 354
  • 354

YVES TANGUY | Ohne Titel (Untitled) (Wittrock 17 E)

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 EUR
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Description

  • Yves Tanguy
  • Ohne Titel (Untitled) (Wittrock 17 E)
  • signé au crayon YVES TANGUY (vers le bas à droite) et numéroté au crayon II/V (vers le bas à gauche)
  • eau-forte et aquatinte en couleurs sur papier
  • plate: 9,6 x 6,9 cm; 3 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.; sheet: 14,4 x 11,5 cm; 5 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 1947.

Provenance

Vente : Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 mai 2001, lot 153
Acquis lors de cette vente par Dr. Arthur Brandt

Exhibited

Boone, Turchin Center for the Arts, The Omnipotent Dream: Man Ray, Confluences and Influences, 2003, listé dans le catalogue p. 37
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection, 2006

Literature

Wolfgang Wittrock, Yves Tanguy, L'Oeuvre gravé (catalogue d'exposition), Düsseldorf, 1976, no. 17 E, autre exemplaire reproduit n. p.

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, hinged to the mount in two points along the upper edge and floating in its mount. The all edges are deckled and there is a small tear to the upper right corner (approx. 0.4 cm long). There is a repaired tear (approx. 16 cm long) running horizontally and vertically towards the upper and right edge. The sheet is slightly light stained. This work is in overall fairly good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Cette œuvre a été exécutée pour Yves Tanguy & Tristan Tzara, L’Antitete – Minuits pour Geants, Bordas, Paris, 1949.