Yves Tanguy
I Await You (Je vous attends)1934

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Horizontal surrealist oil painting with a flat gray plain under a banded silver sky, populated by small biomorphic and bone-like forms clustered around a dark central mass

Artist or Maker: Yves Tanguy
France, Paris, active United States, 1900-1955
Title: I Await You (Je vous attends)
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1934
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28 1/2 × 45 in. (72.39 × 114.3 cm)
Credit Line: 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
Accession Number: AC1994.158.1
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: 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.
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. 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.
Selected Bibliography: Tanguy, Kay Sage, Lucy Lippard, and Bernard Karpel. Yves Tanguy: un recueil de ses œuvres. New York: Pierre Matisse, 1963.

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