I Await You (Je vous attends)

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I Await You (Je vous attends)

Alternate Title: Je vous attends

France, 1934
Paintings
Oil on canvas
28 1/2 × 45 in. (72.39 × 114.3 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the Ducommun and Gross Acquisition Fund, the David E. Bright Bequest, the Phil Berg Collection, the Austin and Irene Young Trust, Charles K. Feldman, Mrs. Harold English, George Cukor, B. Gerald Cantor, John C. Best, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hackett, Alexander M. Lewyt, Miss Corinne Griffith, "Friends of Richard Buhlig," Miss Louise Ballard, Morton D. May, the Benjamin Fund, and the Twentieth-Century Art Acquisition Fund (AC1994.158.1)
Modern Art
Currently on public view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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Provenance

The artist (1900-1955); probably sold 1938 to his wife Katherine Linn (Kay) Sage (1898-1963), Paris. [Lucien Lefebvre, Paris (label no.614)]. Howard Putzel. [ Zwemmer Gallery, London (label no....
The artist (1900-1955); probably sold 1938 to his wife Katherine Linn (Kay) Sage (1898-1963), Paris. [Lucien Lefebvre, Paris (label no.614)]. Howard Putzel. [ Zwemmer Gallery, London (label no. 502)]. Miss Amanda Heywood-Lonsdale (1944- ), London; [sold in 1966 at Sotheby’s London, March 30, 1966, Lot 80];  [to Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago on behalf of]; Mr. (1924-2017) and Mrs. Jerome L. Stern, New York; [sold in 1994 through Jeffrey Deitch Art Advisory Services]; to LACMA.
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Label

Yves Tanguy met the preeminent Surrealist André Breton in 1925, and within a year officially joined the Surrealist movement himself....
Yves Tanguy met the preeminent Surrealist André Breton in 1925, and within a year officially joined the Surrealist movement himself. I Await You, among the largest canvases Tanguy ever painted, is characteristic of both his work and the Surrealists’ interest in dreams and the unconscious. Meticulously painted, the fantastical forms scattered throughout the eerie landscape recall the Celtic ruins of Brittany in western France, where Tanguy spent his childhood, as well as geological formations the artist observed during a trip to Africa in 1930.

Wall label, 2021.
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Bibliography

  • Tanguy, Kay Sage, Lucy Lippard, and Bernard Karpel. Yves Tanguy: un recueil de ses œuvres. New York: Pierre Matisse, 1963.
  • Le Bihan, René; Mabin, Renée; and Sawin, Martica.  Yves Tanguy.  Quimper, France: Editions Palantines, 2001.