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Yves Tanguy — Les Jeux nouveaux
Yves Tanguy

Les Jeux nouveaux

1940

Les Jeux nouveaux is an oil painting by Yves Tanguy from 1940 that exemplifies the Surrealist artist's distinctive biomorphic abstraction. The work features organic, amorphous forms rendered in muted tones, characteristic of Tanguy's dreamlike compositions exploring the subconscious.

Medium
oil on canvas

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Surrealism & Its Legacy

March 15, 2023

Estimate: $800,000$1,200,000

Lot 9

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Yves Tanguy, Les Jeux nouveaux, 1940

Les Jeux nouveaux is an oil painting by Yves Tanguy from 1940 that exemplifies the Surrealist artist's distinctive biomorphic abstraction. The work features organic, amorphous forms rendered in muted tones, characteristic of Tanguy's dreamlike compositions exploring the subconscious.

Medium
oil on canvas
Year
1940
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Surrealism, French, Mysterious, Avant-Garde, Imaginative, Melancholic, Dreamlike, Dream Imagery, Modernism, 1940s, Abstract Forms, Oil Painting, Colorful, Earthy, Abstract, Oil on Canvas, Biomorphic

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