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AdmittedYves Tanguy · 1925
This is Rue de la Santé — a painting by the American artist Yves Tanguy, nineteen twenty-five. Oil on canvas — about 50 by 61 centimeters. You can pick out the city street.
Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 19 3/4 x 24 1/8" (50.2 x 61.1 cm) · Credit Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest
Hanging beside it in Gallery 517: Birds above the Forest (Oiseaux au-dessus de la forêt), The Secret Gathering
Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Moulin Rouge, Bourges, Entrance Gate to Paris Subway (Métropolitain) Station, Paris, France, Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby, Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby, Untitled from the series Dear Painter, Paint for Me [Lieber Maler, male mir]
More by Yves Tanguy here: Slowly Toward the North
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Catalogue record: MoMA Collection Notes written for momap — not MoMA curatorial text.