At the Risk of the Sun
Artist
Yves Tanguy
(American, born France, 1900 - 1955)
Date1947
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 28 x 16 inches (71.12 x 40.64 cm)
Framed: 32 x 20 1/16 inches (81.28 x 50.96 cm)
Framed: 32 x 20 1/16 inches (81.28 x 50.96 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Friends of Art
Object numberF58-68
Signedl.l.: "Yves Tanguy 49"
On View
On viewGallery Location
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DescriptionIn foreground, two constructions of a congeries of bonelike forms in grays and faint red. Right: form has a right-angled arm jutting from left side and pointing upward. Dark gray desert-like background, flat stone from right rear, low horizon, green-tinged white sky area.Gallery LabelStrange, organic forms appear in this dramatically illuminated, desolate landscape. A heart form can be seen on the right. To the left is an imaginative array of stacked shapes, referencing parts of human and animal bodies. Yves Tanguy and other Surrealist artists sought to reveal the contents of the unconscious mind. Inspired by Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theories, they depicted images from their dreams, nightmares, and memories. Tanguy based this image on the prehistoric stone monuments he saw as a child in Brittany, France.
Purchased from the artist by the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, March 1948-November 7, 1958;
Purchased from the Pierre Matisse Gallery by the Friends of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 7, 1958;
Their gift
to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kanssa City, MO, 1958.
Copyright© Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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