Inscription: Signed and dated (bottom right): YVES TANGUY 54
the artist, Woodbury, Conn. (1954–d. 1955); his widow, Kay Sage Tanguy, Woodbury, Conn. (1955–58; sold in March 1958, for $6,800, as "Du Vert au blanc," to Matisse); [Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1958; stock no. 3825; sold on March 8, 1958 to Gelman]; Jacques and Natasha Gelman, Mexico City and New York (1958–his d. 1986); Natasha Gelman, Mexico City and New York (1986–d. 1998; her bequest to MMA)
Hartford, Conn. Wadsworth Atheneum. "Yves Tanguy, Kay Sage," August 10–September 28, 1954, no. 31 (as "Du vert au blanc," lent by the artist).
New York. Pierre Matisse Gallery. "Group Exhibition: Balthus, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Jean Matisse, MacIver, Martin, Masson, Miró, Riopelle, Roszak, Tanguy," October 1954, no catalogue.
New York. Acquavella Galleries, Inc. "Yves Tanguy," November 7–December 7, 1974, no. 53 (lent by Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Gelman).
Paris. Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne. "Yves Tanguy: Rétrospective 1925–1955," June 17–September 27, 1982, no. 117 (as "Du Vert au blanc," lent by M. et Mme Jacques Gelman, Mexico).
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. "Yves Tanguy: Retrospektive 1925–1955," October 17, 1982–January 2, 1983, no. 101 (as "Du vert au blanc [Von Grün zu Weiss]," lent by M. und Mme Jacques Gelman, Mexico).
New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Yves Tanguy: A Retrospective," January 21–February 27, 1983, brochure no. 117 (as "From Green to White [Du Vert au blanc]," lent by a private collection, New York).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Twentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection," December 12, 1989–April 1, 1990, unnumbered cat. (p. 237).
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Twentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection," April 19–July 15, 1990, unnumbered cat.
Mexico City. Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo. "La Colección de Pintura Mexicana de Jacques y Natasha Gelman," June 23–October 11, 1992, not in catalogue.
Martigny. Fondation Pierre Gianadda. "De Matisse à Picasso: Collection Jacques et Natasha Gelman," June 18–November 1, 1994, unnumbered cat. (p. 261).
James Thrall Soby. "Double Solitaire." Saturday Review 37 (September 4, 1954), ill. p. 30.
Marcel Jean. "Yves Tanguy, peintre de la voie lactée." Les Lettres nouvelles no. 25 (March 1955), p. 378.
Kay Sage et al. Yves Tanguy: Un Recueil de ses oeuvres / A Summary of His Works. New York, 1963, p. 190, no. 461, ill.
Patrick Waldberg. Yves Tanguy. Brussels, 1977, pp. 271, 277, 283, ill. p. 282.
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. 154–55, 230, no. 117, ill. (color).
Katharina Schmidt inYves Tanguy. Ed. Katharina Schmidt. Exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Munich, 1982, pp. 22, 258, 261, 274, no. 101, ill. p. 223 (color).
Gordon Onslow Ford. Yves Tanguy and Automatism. Inverness, Calif., 1983, p. 23.
Sabine Rewald inTwentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Ed. William S. Lieberman. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, pp. 236–38, 316, ill. (color and bw).
William S. Lieberman inTwentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Ed. William S. Lieberman. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, p. 15.
Dawn Ades inTwentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Ed. William S. Lieberman. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, p. 43.
John Ashbery inTwentieth–Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Ed. William S. Lieberman. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, p. 51.
Martica Sawin. "1940–1955. Les années américaines." Yves Tanguy. Quimper, France, 2001, colorpl. 121.
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, p. 49, fig. 15 (color).
Yves Tanguy (American (born France), Paris 1900–1955 Woodbury, Connecticut)
1954
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