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Yves Tanguy (Paris, France, 1900 – 1955, Woodbury, Connecticut). Au Coeur de la Paresse, 1946. Oil on canvas, 39 × 32 in. (99.1 × 81.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of The Beatrice and Samuel A. Seaver Foundation, 2004.30.26. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2004.30.26_SL3.jpg)
Yves Tanguy (Paris, France, 1900 – 1955, Woodbury, Connecticut). Au Coeur de la Paresse, 1946. Oil on canvas, 39 × 32 in. (99.1 × 81.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of The Beatrice and Samuel A. Seaver Foundation, 2004.30.26. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, L1993.4.29_transpc002.jpg)
Au Coeur de la Paresse
Yves Tanguy
Contemporary Art
On View:
Surrealism, a visual and literary movement founded in 1924, originated as a European response to the First World War. Yves Tanguy painted Surrealist landscapes devoid of human figures throughout his career.
Composition and Robe du Matin—created during Tanguy’s self-imposed exile in the United States in the wake of World War II—speak to the irrationality of war and the annihilation of Europe’s people. Using Surrealist free association and unexpected juxtapositions, Tanguy frames vast voids with interlocking forms that resemble body parts and spindly rods. His dreamlike deviations from the natural world reflect Surrealism’s interest in Freudian psychology and the subconscious, and perhaps the postwar landscape of 1946 Europe.
Composition and Robe du Matin—created during Tanguy’s self-imposed exile in the United States in the wake of World War II—speak to the irrationality of war and the annihilation of Europe’s people. Using Surrealist free association and unexpected juxtapositions, Tanguy frames vast voids with interlocking forms that resemble body parts and spindly rods. His dreamlike deviations from the natural world reflect Surrealism’s interest in Freudian psychology and the subconscious, and perhaps the postwar landscape of 1946 Europe.
MEDIUM
Oil on canvas
DATES
1946
DIMENSIONS
39 × 32 in. (99.1 × 81.3 cm)
frame: 43 × 35 3/4 × 4 in. (109.2 × 90.8 × 10.2 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Lower left in black ink: "Yves Tanguy, 1946"
INSCRIPTIONS
Label on board: Pierre Matisse Gallery/ 41 East 57 St, New York 22, NY/
Artist: Yves Tanguy
Title: Au Coeur de la parene/ No. ST A763/ Size 39x32
COLLECTIONS
Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
2004.30.26
CREDIT LINE
Gift of The Beatrice and Samuel A. Seaver Foundation
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
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CAPTION
Yves Tanguy (Paris, France, 1900 – 1955, Woodbury, Connecticut). Au Coeur de la Paresse, 1946. Oil on canvas, 39 × 32 in. (99.1 × 81.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of The Beatrice and Samuel A. Seaver Foundation, 2004.30.26. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2004.30.26_SL3.jpg)
IMAGE
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