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Yves Tanguy

1926 · Oil on canvas with string and collage · Modern and Contemporary Art

Tanguy’s debt to the still and imaginative landscapes of the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico is apparent in the perplexing array of imagery that includes a small school of fish and a child flattened by a cart. The plain white tower in the background—a favorite iconographic motif of de Chirico—secures the connection between the two artists.

Artist

Yves Tanguy

Date

1926

Medium

Oil on canvas with string and collage

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, 2002