About the Artwork
Shadow Country
1927
Yves Tanguy
1900-1955
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 39 × 31 5/8 inches (99.1 × 80.3 cm) Framed: 42 1/2 × 35 1/8 × 2 3/8 inches (108 × 89.2 × 6 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Gift of Lydia Winston Malbin
74.122
© 2005 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Markings
Signed and dated, lower right: YVES TANGUY. 27
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Provenance
Galerie Rive Gauche (Paris, France)
by 1951, Lydia and Harry Winston (Birmingham, Michigan, USA)
Mrs. Lydia Winston Malbin (Birmingham, Michigan, USA)
1974-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Read, Herbert. Surrealism. London, 1936 (pl. 89).
Canaday, John. Mainstreams of Modern Art. New York, 1959, p. 534 (fig. 677).
Matisse, P., ed. Yves Tanguy: A Summary of His Work. New York, 1963, no. 64 (ill.).
Space and Dream. Exh. cat., M. Knoedler & Co. New York, 1967, p. 77 (ill.).
Promenade. New York, 1973, p. 32 (ill.).
Bulletin of the DIA 54, 2 (1975): p. 51 (ill.).
Keynes, M. Abstract Expressionism and Jackson Pollock: Modern Art and Modernism, Manet to Pollock. Great Britain, 1983 (pl. 9.7).
100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, pp. 222-223 (ill.).
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© 2005 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Yves Tanguy, Shadow Country, 1927, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lydia Winston Malbin, 74.122.
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