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    Foto: Walter Klein, Düsseldorf

Dame à l'absence, 1942

Yves Tanguy

On view at K20

Information

Artist

Yves Tanguy

1900
Paris, Frankreich

1955
Woodbury, Connecticut, USA

Work data

Material/Technique

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Image: 114.7 × 89.2 × 3 cm
Frame: 141.8 × 115.7 × 7.5 cm

Signature

Bez. u.r.: "YVES TANGUY 42"

Accession Number

0181

Acquisition year

1971

Provenance

The painting “Dame à l’absence” by Yves Tanguy became the property of the art dealer Pierre Matisse in 1942, the year it was created. However, the work was entered in the Pierre Matisse Gallery’s inventory book at an unknown date with the abbreviation “A.M.,” which stands for Alexina Matisse. Alexina Matisse was married to Pierre Matisse until 1946 and received various works of art, presumably including this painting, as a settlement on their divorce. In 1954, she became the wife of Marcel Duchamp. The work subsequently remained in the Duchamps’s collection until at least 1969. The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased the painting “Dame à l’absence” from Galerie Andrée Stassart for its holdings in 1971.

Credit line

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Exhibitions
  • Yves Tanguy und der Surrealismus/Yves Tanguy and Surrealism, 8.12.2000-27.4.2001, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart/The Menil Collection, Houston
  • Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
  • Yves Tanguy and Surrealism, 31.5.-15.9.2001, The Menil Collection, Houston
  • Masterpieces of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen / Meisterwerke der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 17.10.2008-30.5.2009, Nagoya City Art Museum, Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe
  • Die Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen zu Gast in Gottorf. Picasso, Klee, Beckmann, Matisse und weitere Künstler in Schloß Gottorf, 18.7.-24.10.2009, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloß Gottorf, Schleswig
  • Silent Revolution - Eine neue Sammlungspräsentation, 26.2.-12.6.2010, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
Tags
abstract Modern Art landscape Surrealism
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