Yves Tanguy - Artists - Helly Nahmad Gallery

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This is a painting by Yves Tanguy titled LUMEN. Populated by evocative biomorphic shapes, this work is characteristic of the artist's enigmatic landscapes and abandoned fields representing an alternative, fantastic world.

Tanguy, LUMEN (Light), 1949
Oil on canvas
12 x 10.2 in. (30.5 x 26 cm.)

This is a painting by Yves Tanguy. In his work, the landscape of “beings-objects” imagined from the discharges of the sea, presents fascinating forms, in a dreamlike composition constructed by diagonals, the fruit of chance and the work of the unconscious.

Tanguy, Titre inconnu (Title unknown), 1939
Oil on canvas
29 x 21 1/4 in. (73.5 x 54 cm.)

Aux aguets le jour is one of several smaller-scale oils that Tanguy produced in 1939. In conceiving the composition, he relied upon his preferred vertical landscape format, which he divided into two sections, a vacant yet atmospheric upper region and a barren lower terrestrial region populated with the artist’s signature biomorphic forms.

Tanguy, Aux aguets le jour (On the Lookout by Day), 1939
Oil on canvas
16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm.)