Slowly Toward the North

Yves Tanguy · 1942

Here we have Slowly Toward the North — a painting by the American artist Yves Tanguy, nineteen forty-two. Oil on canvas — about 1.1 by 0.9 meters. It is among the darkest surfaces here: measured across the whole picture it gives back very little light.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 42 x 36" (106.7 x 91.4 cm) · Credit Gift of Philip Johnson

Hanging beside it in Gallery 522: Two Sisters, Milky Way

More by Yves Tanguy here: Rue de la Santé