Artworks · Yves Tanguy

Tailpiece from Un Poème dans chaque livre

1956 · Etching from an illustrated book with seven etchings (three with aquatint, one with aquatint, drypoint, engraving, and roulette), three drypoints (one with engraving), two aquatints, two woodcuts, one engraving, and one lithograph

composition (irreg.): 3 1/2 × 4 11/16" (8.9 × 11.9 cm); page: 7 1/2 × 7 1/16" (19 × 18 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Surrealist Composition with Smoking Container

1955 · Graphite, with smudging, on cream laid paper

20.9 × 26.9 cm (8 1/4 × 10 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Two Mechanical Figures

1954 · Pen and black ink, with white gouache, on cream wove paper

41.5 × 29.6 cm (16 3/8 × 11 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1954 · Oil on wood

3 1/4 x 3 1/4" (8.3 x 8.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Multiplication of the Arcs

1954 · Oil on canvas

40 x 60" (101.6 x 152.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Sept microbes: vus à travers un tempérament (Seven Microbes Seen Through a Temperament)

1953 · Illustrated with etched color frontispiece by Tanguy on Hollande van Gelder Zonen paper. Thirty tipped-in reproductions of Ernst's original 'Microbes'. Original publisher's wrappers, with a reproduction 'Microbe' pasted to front board.

book, closed: 7 5/16 × 5 1/8 × 11/16" (18.5 × 13 × 1.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1953 · Ink on paper

22 1/4 x 28 1/8" (56.5 x 71.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Thar

1952 · Gouache on gray wove paper

63.2 × 48.2 cm (24 15/16 × 19 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Invisibles

1951 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 987 x 810 mm frame: 1115 x 938 x 60 mm

Tate

Piercing the Stars

1951 · Oil on canvas

76 × 63.6 cm (29 15/16 × 25 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

It's the Wind

1951 · Pen and black ink, with graphite and brush and red wash, on cream wove card

56.1 × 71.5 cm (22 1/8 × 28 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1949 · Pen and black ink, and graphite with smudging and erasing, with touches of white and pink gouache, on tan wove paper

50.5 × 37.3 cm (19 15/16 × 14 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1949 · Pen and black ink with graphite on ivory wove paper

56.1 × 76.2 cm (22 1/8 × 30 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1949 · Ink on paper

19 7/8 x 14 3/4" (50.5 x 37.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1949 · Ink on paper

19 7/8 x 14 3/4" (50.5 x 37.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1949 · Ink on paper

16 7/8 x 13 7/8" (43 x 35.4 cm)

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Untitled

1949 · Ink on paper

20 × 14 3/4" (50.8 × 37.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1949 · Ink, watercolor, and pencil on paper

19 7/8 x 14 5/8" (50.5 x 37.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Brunidor Portfolio No. 1, Plate 1: Rhabdomancie

1947 · Color etching

Platemark: 29.7 x 22.4 cm (11 11/16 x 8 13/16 in.); Sheet: 40.7 x 33 cm (16 x 13 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Plein Ciel

1947 · etching and aquatint

Sheet: 33.4 x 25.3 cm (13 1/8 x 9 15/16 in.); Platemark: 17.3 x 12.5 cm (6 13/16 x 4 15/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Le Mythe de la Roche perçée: Untitled B (verso)

1947 · etching

Sheet: 39 x 27.8 cm (15 3/8 x 10 15/16 in.); Platemark: 27.8 x 18.5 cm (10 15/16 x 7 5/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Le Mythe de la Roche perçée: Untitled A (recto)

1947 · etching

Sheet: 39.2 x 28.1 cm (15 7/16 x 11 1/16 in.); Platemark: 27.8 x 18.5 cm (10 15/16 x 7 5/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Le Mythe de la Roche perçée: Untitled B (recto)

1947 · etching

Sheet: 39 x 27.8 cm (15 3/8 x 10 15/16 in.); Platemark: 27.8 x 18.5 cm (10 15/16 x 7 5/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Le mythe de la Roche Perçee: poeme (The Myth of the Pierced Rock)

1947 · 25 pages printed on Shadowmould paper, with 3 pencil signed etchings by Yves Tanguy

H.: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Rhabdomancie

1947 · Color etching on white wove paper

Plate: 29.7 × 22.5 cm (11 3/4 × 8 7/8 in.); Sheet: 41.5 × 33 cm (16 3/8 × 13 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Rhabdomancy (Rhabdomancie) from Brunidor Portfolio, No. 1

1947 · Etching from a portfolio of five etchings (one with engraving) and two lithographs

plate: 11 11/16 x 8 13/16" (29.7 x 22.4 cm); sheet: 16 1/8 x 12 7/8" (41 x 32.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Brunidor Portfolio, No. 1

1947 · Portfolio of five etchings (one with engraving) and two lithographs

composition (see child records): dimensions vary; sheet (each approx.): 16 9/16 × 13" (42 × 33 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1947 · Ink on paper

17 7/8 x 11 7/8" (45.7 x 30.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1947 · Ink on paper

11 1/4 x 7 1/2" (28.5 x 19.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1947 · Ink on paper

17 1/2 x 11 1/4" (44.5 x 28.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1947 · Gouache, ink, and pencil on colored paper

13 5/8 x 9 7/8" (34.0 x 25.2 cm)

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Untitled

1947 · Gouache, ink, and crayon on colored paper

13 7/8 x 11 1/4" (35.1 x 28.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 73) from Minuits pour géants: Volume II from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 23 etchings (15 with aquatint, eight with drypoint and pochoir)

plate: 3 3/4 × 2 11/16" (9.6 × 6.8 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 61) from Minuits pour géants: Volume II from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 23 etchings (15 with aquatint, eight with drypoint and pochoir)

plate: 3 3/4 × 2 11/16" (9.6 × 6.8 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 49) from Minuits pour géants: Volume II from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 23 etchings (15 with aquatint, eight with drypoint and pochoir)

plate: 3 13/16 × 2 11/16" (9.7 × 6.9 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 37) from Minuits pour géants: Volume II from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 23 etchings (15 with aquatint, eight with drypoint and pochoir)

plate: 3 3/4 × 2 11/16" (9.6 × 6.9 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 15) from Minuits pour géants: Volume II from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 23 etchings (15 with aquatint, eight with drypoint and pochoir)

plate: 3 13/16 × 2 11/16" (9.7 × 6.8 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Frontispiece from Minuits pour géants: Volume II from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 23 etchings (15 with aquatint, eight with drypoint and pochoir)

plate: 3 13/16 × 2 11/16" (9.7 × 6.8 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

L'Antitête (The Anti-Head)

1947 · Illustrated book with 23 etchings (15 with aquatint, eight with drypoint and pochoir)

page (each approx.): 5 1/2 × 4 7/16" (14 × 11.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Minuits pour géants: Volume II from L'Antitête

1947 · Volume II from an illustrated book with 23 etchings (15 with aquatint, eight with drypoint and pochoir)

irreg. page 5 1/2 x 4 3/8" (14 x 11.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 95) from Minuits pour géants: Volume II from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 23 etchings (15 with aquatint, eight with drypoint and pochoir)

plate: 3 3/4 × 2 11/16" (9.6 × 6.8 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Variant of plate (page 49) from Minuits pour géants: Volume II from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and pochoir from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 3/4 × 2 11/16" (9.5 × 6.9 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 73) from Minuits pour géants: Volume II from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 3/4 × 2 11/16" (9.6 × 6.8 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Variant of plate (page 15) from Minuits pour géants: Volume II from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and pochoir from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 3/4 × 2 11/16" (9.6 × 6.8 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate from Le Surréalisme en 1947

1947 · Etching from an illustrated book with eighteen lithographs, four etchings (two with aquatint), two woodcuts, one photogravure, and one ready-made object

plate: 6 13/16 × 6" (17.3 × 15.2 cm); page: 9 7/16 × 8" (24 × 20.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

L'Antitête

1947 · Three volume illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

page (each approx.): 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Minuits pour géants: Volume II from L'Antitête

1947 · Volume II from a three volume illustrated book

page (each approx.): 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm); overall (closed): 6 1/8 × 4 3/4 × 1" (15.5 × 12 × 2.5 cm)

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Variant of frontispiece from Minuits pour géants: Volume II from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and pochoir from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 3/4 × 2 11/16" (9.5 × 6.8 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

Museum of Modern Art