My Life, White and Black

Yves Tanguy

1944 · Oil on canvas · Modern and Contemporary Art

Interlocking organic shapes of dull and sharp appendages support one another like a monument in Tanguy's characteristic space. Having met the poet André Breton in 1925, Tanguy remained true to the Surrealist movement throughout his work, borrowing shapes and motifs from Jean Arp and Joan Miró.

Artist

Yves Tanguy

Date

1944

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998