Dame à l'absence, 1942
Yves Tanguy
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/Tokio/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
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