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Yves Tanguy — Le Mythe de la roche percée: plate B
Yves Tanguy

Le Mythe de la roche percée: plate B

A masterwork of Surrealist printmaking, Yves Tanguy's etching presents a dreamlike landscape populated by his signature biomorphic forms and ambiguous, otherworldly shapes that seem to hover between the organic and the geological. The composition evokes a mysterious, primordial world where strange, smooth forms cast shadows across a barren terrain, rendered with remarkable precision through the etching medium. Printed on wove paper with full margins, this work exemplifies Tanguy's ability to conjure an entirely imagined universe that feels simultaneously alien and hauntingly familiar.

Medium
Etching, on wove paper, with full margins,

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Yves Tanguy, Le Mythe de la roche percée: plate B

A masterwork of Surrealist printmaking, Yves Tanguy's etching presents a dreamlike landscape populated by his signature biomorphic forms and ambiguous, otherworldly shapes that seem to hover between the organic and the geological. The composition evokes a mysterious, primordial world where strange, smooth forms cast shadows across a barren terrain, rendered with remarkable precision through the etching medium. Printed on wove paper with full margins, this work exemplifies Tanguy's ability to conjure an entirely imagined universe that feels simultaneously alien and hauntingly familiar.

Medium
Etching, on wove paper, with full margins,
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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Surrealism, Dreamlike Landscape, 20th Century, Male Artist, Surrealist Master, Etching, French Artist, Enigmatic Mood, Biomorphic Shapes, Print On Paper, Abstract Forms, Monochromatic

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