Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Death Watching His Family
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Image View:
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Detail, middle left side
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Creator:
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Yves Tanguy (French painter, 1900-1955)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Inv. no. 769 (1975.26)
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Location Note:
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Paseo del Prado, 8
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GPS:
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+40.416111-3.695
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Date:
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1927 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Surrealist; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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100 cm (height) x 73 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; dream state
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Description:
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1927 marked the beginning of Yves Tanguy’s more mature and personal work. During that year the painter, who was self-taught, joined the Surrealist group and, introduced by André Breton, exhibited his works for the first time at the Galerie Surreáliste in Paris, including the present dream landscape entitled Death Watching his Family. The painting depicts a beach and above it a series of biomorphic forms and a rotting corpse, together with a construction that may allude to the dolmens of Brittany. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothyssen.org/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-TANGUY-TBM-DWF-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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