Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): YVES TANGUY 54; signed, dated, and inscribed (reverse, twice on stretcher): YVES TANGUY 1954 32 X 39
the artist, Woodbury, Conn. (1954–d. 1955; his estate, 1955; on consignment February 1, 1954–June 1955 to the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, consignment no. C.2321; sold by Matisse to MMA)
New Haven. Yale University Art Gallery. "Object and Image in Modern Art and Poetry," April 30–June 14, 1954, no. 34 (as "Mirage le Temps," lent by the Pierre Matisse Gallery).
Hartford, Conn. Wadsworth Atheneum. "Yves Tanguy, Kay Sage," August 10–September 28, 1954, no. 30 (as "Mirage le temps," lent by the artist).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Yves Tanguy," September 6–October 30, 1955, unnumbered cat. (p. 64; as "The Mirage of Time [Mirage le temps]").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.
San Diego. La Jolla Museum of Art. "Continuing Surrealism," January 15–March 21, 1971, no. 47 (as "Mirage le temps").
Binghamton, N.Y. Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences. "Time, Nature, and the Arts," January 14–March 4, 1973, unnumbered cat.
San Juan. El Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. "Arte del Siglo Veinte: EE.UU. del Museo Metropolitano de Arte," April 19–May 31, 1974, no. 21 (as "Mirage le Temps").
New York. Acquavella Galleries, Inc. "Yves Tanguy," November 7–December 7, 1974, no. 52.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Tribute to a Curator: Robert Beverly Hale," November 16, 1978–March 4, 1979, extended to March 18, 1979, unnum. checklist.
Paris. Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne. "Yves Tanguy: Rétrospective 1925–1955," June 17–September 27, 1982, no. 116 (as "Mirage le temps").
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. "Yves Tanguy: Retrospektive 1925–1955," October 17, 1982–January 2, 1983, no. 100 (as "Mirage le temps [Die Täuschung der Zeit]").
New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Yves Tanguy: A Retrospective," January 21–February 27, 1983, brochure no. 116 (as "The Mirage of Time [Mirage le temps]").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selection One: Twentieth-Century Art," February 1–April 30, 1985, no catalogue.
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art. "Landscape Painting in the East and West," April 19–June 1, 1986, no. 41.
Kobe City Museum. "Landscape Painting in the East and West," June 7–July 13, 1986, no. 41.
Tulsa, Okla. Philbrook Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 14–June 9, 1991, no. 47.
Miami. Center for the Fine Arts. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 29–August 24, 1991, no. 47.
Omaha. Joslyn Art Museum. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 14–November 10, 1991, no. 47.
Tampa Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," December 14, 1991–February 8, 1992, no. 47.
Greenville, S. C. Greenville County Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 17–May 10, 1992, no. 47.
Madison, Wisc. Madison Art Center. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 6–August 2, 1992, no. 47.
Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids Art Museum. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 11–November 8, 1992, no. 47.
Roslyn Harbor, N. Y. Nassau County Museum of Art. "Intimates and Confidants in Art: Husbands, Wives, Lovers and Friends," February 28–May 23, 1993, unnumbered cat. (p. 55).
Roslyn Harbor, N. Y. Nassau County Museum of Art. "Surrealism," January 15–April 16, 1995, unnumbered cat. (p. 86).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Painters in Paris: 1895–1950," March 8–December 31, 2000, extended to January 14, 2001, unnumbered cat. (p. 55).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection," May 18, 2004–June 26, 2005, no catalogue (checklist no. 52).
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper. "Yves Tanguy: L'univers surréaliste," June 29–September 30, 2007, no. 224.
Barcelona. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. "Yves Tanguy: L'univers surréaliste," October 25, 2007–January 13, 2008, no. 224.
Katonah, N. Y. Katonah Museum of Art. "Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy," June 5–September 18, 2011, unnumbered cat. (pl. 30).
Wellesley, Mass. Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College. "Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy," October 19, 2011–January 15, 2012, no catalogue.
Charlotte, N. C. Mint Museum Uptown at Levine Center for the Arts. "Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy," February 11–May 13, 2012, unnumbered cat. (pl. 30).
Julien Levy. "Tanguy, Connecticut, Sage." Art News 53 (September 1954), p. 26, ill.
James Thrall Soby. Yves Tanguy. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1955, p. 21, ill. p. 64.
Howard Devree. "Modern Fantasy: De Chirico and Tanguy in Museum Show." New York Times (September 11, 1955), ill. p. X11.
LaVerne George. "De Chirico and Tanguy." Arts Digest 29 (September 15, 1955), p. 14.
Kay Sage et al. Yves Tanguy: Un Recueil de ses oeuvres / A Summary of His Works. New York, 1963, p. 188, no. 457, ill. (color).
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 157–58, ill., calls it "Mirage le Temps".
Jerrold Morris. On the Enjoyment of Modern Art. 2nd rev. ed. [1st ed. 1965]. Greenwich, Conn., 1968, pp. 49, 68, pl. 11.
Patrick Waldberg. Yves Tanguy. Brussels, 1977, p. 277, ill. p. 278, calls it "Le Mirage du temps".
Roland Penrose inYves Tanguy: Rétrospective 1925–1955. Ed. Agnès Angliviel de La Beaumelle and Florence Chauveau. Exh. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne. Paris, 1982, p. 28 [German ed., Munich, 1982, p. 31; reprinted in Exh. New York 1983 brochure, p. 13].
José Pierre inYves Tanguy: Rétrospective 1925–1955. Ed. Agnès Angliviel de La Beaumelle and Florence Chauveau. Exh. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne. Paris, 1982, p. 58 [German ed., Munich, 1982].
Agnès Angliviel de La Beaumelle and Florence Chauveau, ed. Yves Tanguy: Rétrospective 1925–1955. Exh. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne. Paris, 1982, pp. 154, 230, no. 116, ill.
Katharina Schmidt inYves Tanguy. Ed. Katharina Schmidt. Exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Munich, 1982, pp. 22, 258, 261, 274, no. 100, ill. p. 222.
Lisa Messinger inLandscape Painting in the East and West. Exh. cat., Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art. [Shizuoka–ken], 1986, pp. 103, 293, 361, no. 41, ill. p. 102 (color).
Lowery S. Sims in20th Century Art: Selections from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Vol. 2, Painting: 1945–1985. New York, 1986, pp. 32–33, ill. (color, overall and detail).
Lisa M. Messinger inThe Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1991, pp. 136–38, no. 47, ill. (color).
Robert Rosenblum inThe Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1991, pp. 12–13.
Eliot Nusbaum. "Joslyn Hosts a Vivid Landscape Show." Des Moines Sunday Register (September 22, 1991), p. 7F.
Franklin Hill Perrell inIntimates and Confidants in Art: Husbands, Wives, Lovers and Friends. Exh. cat., Nassau County Museum of Art. Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., 1993, pp. 13, 80, ill. p. 55.
Martica Sawin. Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School. Cambridge, Mass., 1995, ill. p. 418.
Karin von Maur. Yves Tanguy und der Surrealismus. Exh. cat., Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Ostfildern-Ruit, 2000, pp. 126, 236, no. 77, ill. p. 124 (color), calls it "Mirage le temps (Trugbild der Zeit)".
William S. Lieberman. "Les Peintres de Paris à New York." Connaissance des arts no. 578 (December 2000), p. 130.
Martica Sawin. "1940–1955. Les années américaines." Yves Tanguy. Quimper, France, 2001, p. 204, colorpl. 120, calls it "Le Mirage du temps".
Sabine Rewald in "Selections from the Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 61 (Spring 2004), p. 17, ill.
André Cariou inYves Tanguy: L'univers surréaliste. Ed. André Cariou. Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper. Paris, 2007, pp. 212–13, no. 224, ill. (color).
Isabelle Dervaux inYves Tanguy: L'univers surréaliste. Ed. André Cariou. Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper. Paris, 2007, p. 178.
Roland Penrose. "Yves Tanguy." Arte y Parte 72 (December 2007–January 2008), p. 48 [translation of Ref. Penrose 1982].
Jonathan Stuhlman inDouble Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy. Ed. Nancy Wallach. Exh. cat., Katonah Museum of Art. Katonah, N. Y., 2011, pp. 43–44, 47, 49, 103, colorpl. 30.
Janet A. Kaplan. "Review. Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy." Woman's Art Journal 33 (Spring/Summer 2012), p. 53.
Yves Tanguy (American (born France), Paris 1900–1955 Woodbury, Connecticut)
1947
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