
Yves Tanguy
Untitled
1938
On view
Yves Tanguy
1931
This weird landscape of corrugated fortifications, watchtowers, earthworks and unnameable molten forms, with a sundial and flying whiskers, is rendered subterranean or sub-aqueous by the ambiguity of the ‘sky’, which seems to be solid. It belongs to a series of works called ‘les coulées’ (flowing forms) inspired by a visit to Tunis in 1930, where Tanguy was impressed by the African landscape. The strangeness of this vision resembles a nightmare: this is characteristic of Surrealism’s interest in the irrational activity of the sub-conscious as expressed in dream.
On view
Artist | Yves Tanguy |
Original Title | Palais promontoire |
Date | 1931 |
Medium | Oil and graphite on canvas |
Dimensions | 73 x 60 cm |
Credit line | Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York) |
Accession | 76.2553 PG 94 |
Collection | Peggy Guggenheim Collection |
Type | Painting |
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On view
Yves Tanguy
1938
On view
Yves Tanguy
1937
On view
Yves Tanguy
ca. 1938
On view
Yves Tanguy
March 1941
On view