Pierre Premiere
Artist: Yves Tanguy (French, 1900-1955)
Date: 1947
Dimensions:
Painting: 28 × 23 in. (71.1 × 58.4 cm)
Frame: 36 × 30 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (91.4 × 78.1 × 6.4 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1996.22
Label Text:Cornerstone belongs to Yves Tanguy’s explorations of odd, stone-bone geo-organic formations in a barren, primordial landscape that recedes into a murky distance. The hybrid forms in the foreground are thrust so close to the viewer that their lower parts are cropped by the bottom of the picture. The structure on the left is composed of irregular oval elements, while the other is crowned with a sharp, obelisk-like form, suggesting female-male associations between the two.
Not on view
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