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Large Painting Representing a Landscape - Yves Tanguy
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Description
A seminal 1927 Surrealist work by Yves Tanguy, featuring a desolate, dreamlike plain populated by enigmatic, biomorphic forms.
This work by Yves Tanguy, created in 1927, is a characteristic example of his early contribution to the Surrealist movement. The composition presents an expansive, desolate plain that recedes into a dark, atmospheric horizon. Tanguy employs a precise, almost academic technique to render these impossible, dreamlike forms, which contrast with the vast emptiness of the space. The painting features a large, monolithic structure on the left, which casts a long shadow across the foreground. Scattered across the ground are various biomorphic shapes, some resembling organic matter or strange, calcified debris. These objects appear to exist in a state of suspension, defying conventional physics. The ground itself is marked by rhythmic, horizontal bands of light and shadow, which create a sense of depth and movement across the flat surface. Tanguy was largely self-taught, having been inspired to paint after seeing a work by Giorgio de Chirico in a gallery window. His approach to the canvas involves a meticulous application of paint, resulting in smooth transitions and a lack of visible brushwork. This finish contributes to the uncanny quality of the scene, as the viewer is invited to interpret the ambiguous relationships between the objects and their environment. The palette is restrained, relying on muted tones of beige, grey, and deep blue to establish a somber, otherworldly mood. By avoiding explicit narrative, Tanguy allows the viewer to engage with the visual tension between the solid, geometric monolith and the fluid, organic forms that populate the space. This piece remains a primary example of how Surrealist artists sought to externalise the contents of the subconscious mind through the medium of painting.
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
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Large Painting Representing a Landscape - Yves Tanguy
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From $130.00 NZD
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From $130.00 NZD
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Fine Art Framed / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / Black frame
The Artwork
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Our guide to the original work behind this print.
Artist Biography
Yves Tanguy
Tanguy was riding a bus through Paris in 1923 when he spotted a painting by Giorgio de Chirico in a gallery window. He became so agitated he jumped off at the next stop and ran back to look at it. He decided on the spot to become a painter. He had no training whatsoever. He was twenty-three.
He was born in Paris in 1900. He briefly joined the merchant navy in 1918 before being drafted into the army, where he met the poet Jacques Prevert, who later introduced him to Andre Breton's Surrealist circle. He joined the Surrealists in 1925 and had his first solo show just two years later, having taught himself everything.
His paintings consistently depict flat, featureless landscapes resembling sea floors or alien terrain, populated by biomorphic forms that look like melted rocks or bones. He never explained them. The palette is muted, the horizons infinite, the atmosphere airless. The same vocabulary of forms appears across decades of work with only gradual variation.
He married the American Surrealist painter Kay Sage in Reno, Nevada, in 1940. They settled in Woodbury, Connecticut, converting an old farmhouse into a studio. He died there in 1955, aged fifty-five.
He was born in Paris in 1900. He briefly joined the merchant navy in 1918 before being drafted into the army, where he met the poet Jacques Prevert, who later introduced him to Andre Breton's Surrealist circle. He joined the Surrealists in 1925 and had his first solo show just two years later, having taught himself everything.
His paintings consistently depict flat, featureless landscapes resembling sea floors or alien terrain, populated by biomorphic forms that look like melted rocks or bones. He never explained them. The palette is muted, the horizons infinite, the atmosphere airless. The same vocabulary of forms appears across decades of work with only gradual variation.
He married the American Surrealist painter Kay Sage in Reno, Nevada, in 1940. They settled in Woodbury, Connecticut, converting an old farmhouse into a studio. He died there in 1955, aged fifty-five.
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