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Tanguy’s debt to the still and imaginative landscapes of the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico is apparent in the perplexing array of imagery that includes a small school of fish and a child flattened by a cart. The plain white tower in the background—a favorite iconographic motif of de Chirico—secures the connection between the two artists.
Artwork Details
- Title: Title Unknown
- Artist: Yves Tanguy (American (born France), Paris 1900–1955 Woodbury, Connecticut)
- Date: 1926
- Medium: Oil on canvas with string and collage
- Dimensions: 36 1/4 × 25 1/2 in. (92 × 64.8 cm)
- Classifications: Paintings, Drawings
- Credit Line: The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, 2002
- Object Number: 2002.456.6
- Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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