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Yves Tanguy

La tour marine (Tower of the Sea)

1944

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  • Artist Yves Tanguy (French, 1900–1955)
  • Title La tour marine (Tower of the Sea)
  • Date 1944
  • Medium Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions unframed | 35 7/8 x 13 3/4 in.
  • Credit line University purchase, Kende Sale Fund, 1946
  • Object number WU 3772
  • Currently on View Gertrude Bernoudy Gallery, Room 4

Artists in Exile: European Surrealists in the US during and after World War II
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/01/2023

Picasso to Pollock: H.W. Janson and the Legacy of Modern Art at Washington University in St. Louis
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum (San Antonio, Texas), 08/17/2004 - 10/24/2004

H. W. Janson and the Legacy of Modern Art at Washington University in St. Louis
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 08/30/2002 - 12/08/2002
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries (New York, New York), 03/12/2002 - 04/06/2002

Caught By Politics: Art of the 1930s and 1940s
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/19/2001 - 03/18/2001

Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/12/1998 - 04/05/1998

A Gallery of Modern Art
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 08/09/1994 - 10/16/1994

Cubists, Surrealists, and Expressionists

Capsule of Modern Art
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/09/1983 - 03/06/1983

The Centennial Exhibition
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/15/1981 - 10/11/1981

Cubist, Expressionist, and Surrealist Paintings and Sculptures

Portraits and Landscapes

Yves Tanguy, Benefit for the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Acquavella Galleries, Inc. (New York, New York), 11/07/1974 - 12/07/1974

20th Century American Painting
Grand Rapids Art Museum, 04/01/1967 - 04/30/1967

Rene Magritte and Yves Tanguy
Denver Art Museum, 05/13/1962 - 06/13/1962
Allentown Art Museum, 09/28/1962 - 10/26/1962
Currier Museum of Art, 08/10/1962 - 09/07/1962
Art Gallery of Ontario, 03/29/1962 - 04/29/1962
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, 02/14/1962 - 03/14/1962
Mercer University, 01/02/1962 - 01/30/1962
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 11/12/1961 - 12/10/1961

Opening Exhibition of Mark C. Steinberg Memorial Hall
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 04/29/1960

Yves Tanguy: A Retrospective Exhibition
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 09/07/1955 - 10/30/1955

Art at Washington University
Saint Louis Art Museum, 05/07/1953 - 05/31/1953

An Exhibition of Contemporary Art
Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, 04/15/1951 - 05/15/1951

Yves Tanguy
Pierre Matisse Gallery, 05/08/1945 - 06/02/1945

1946
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York

Inscription [LR:] Yves Tanguy 44

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