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Lot 103 EXCEPTIONAL WORKS FROM THE TRITON COLLECTION FOUNDATION
Christie’s is honoured to be offering for sale a significant group of works from the Triton Collection Foundation, which continues to evolve and grow in new areas. The collection spans a range of artistic movements from early Impressionism through to Post-War art, establishing the Foundation as a leading institution to carry out its many philanthropic aims.
Over many years the Foundation has considered public access to its works as a fundamental pillar of its collecting ethos. A continuous dialogue with curators around the world and an extensive loan programme to over seventy museums globally has made this dream a reality and benefited exhibitions at the likes of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, the Seoul Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art. These collaborations have ensured that an international audience has consistently had the opportunity to appreciate the quality and breadth of the collection, which stretches from classic Impressionism through to Surrealism and beyond to Post-War work by the major American artists. The sales of the major works in this season’s auctions will give the opportunity to the Foundation to continue its excellent, philanthropic work.
The last major de-acquisition from the collection took place in our salerooms in Paris in March 2015 when the Exceptional Works on Paper from the Triton Collection Foundation sale elicited huge interest from collectors and public institutions around the globe: Those works, which had been collected by its founders over many years, saw spectacular prices for top quality pieces by artists such as Camille Pissarro and Fernand Léger, further to the numerous world record prices achieved for works on paper by Claude-Emile Schuffenecker, Paul-Elie Ranson and Frédéric Bazille. This strong market reaction is in recognition of the eye with which they had originally been selected.
The group of works being sold across our Impressionist sales here in London includes seminal examples of French Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and the European avant-garde, from Claude Monet’s luminous Vétheuil of 1879 to Jan Toorop’s resonating symbolist 1902 composition, Faith and Reward. Each of these works has been bought with a very discerning eye, and often the provenances of the pieces are as noble as the works themselves. We wish the Foundation great success with these sales as well as their future projects and continuous development of the Triton Collection Foundation.
Jussi Pylkkänen
Global President, Christie’s
Christie’s is honoured to be offering for sale a significant group of works from the Triton Collection Foundation, which continues to evolve and grow in new areas. The collection spans a range of artistic movements from early Impressionism through to Post-War art, establishing the Foundation as a leading institution to carry out its many philanthropic aims.
Over many years the Foundation has considered public access to its works as a fundamental pillar of its collecting ethos. A continuous dialogue with curators around the world and an extensive loan programme to over seventy museums globally has made this dream a reality and benefited exhibitions at the likes of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, the Seoul Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art. These collaborations have ensured that an international audience has consistently had the opportunity to appreciate the quality and breadth of the collection, which stretches from classic Impressionism through to Surrealism and beyond to Post-War work by the major American artists. The sales of the major works in this season’s auctions will give the opportunity to the Foundation to continue its excellent, philanthropic work.
The last major de-acquisition from the collection took place in our salerooms in Paris in March 2015 when the Exceptional Works on Paper from the Triton Collection Foundation sale elicited huge interest from collectors and public institutions around the globe: Those works, which had been collected by its founders over many years, saw spectacular prices for top quality pieces by artists such as Camille Pissarro and Fernand Léger, further to the numerous world record prices achieved for works on paper by Claude-Emile Schuffenecker, Paul-Elie Ranson and Frédéric Bazille. This strong market reaction is in recognition of the eye with which they had originally been selected.
The group of works being sold across our Impressionist sales here in London includes seminal examples of French Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and the European avant-garde, from Claude Monet’s luminous Vétheuil of 1879 to Jan Toorop’s resonating symbolist 1902 composition, Faith and Reward. Each of these works has been bought with a very discerning eye, and often the provenances of the pieces are as noble as the works themselves. We wish the Foundation great success with these sales as well as their future projects and continuous development of the Triton Collection Foundation.
Jussi Pylkkänen
Global President, Christie’s
Yves Tanguy (1900-1955)
Sans titre (Taille de guêpe)
Closed27 February 2018
Price Realised
GBP 156,250
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Specialist note
It is the present intention of the Yves Tanguy Committee to include this work in the revised catalogue raisonné, under preparation by the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.
Sans titre (Taille de guêpe) ('Untitled (Narrow Waist)') is an exquisite gouache painting made by Yves Tanguy during his years in America. Painted in 1945, it belongs to the period in which Tanguy first moved, with his wife, the American artist Kay Sage, into a large house in Woodbury, Connecticut. Tanguy was advised in this move by the artist Alexander Calder, a fellow resident of Connecticut in nearby Roxbury and someone with whom Tanguy worked closely and saw often during the wartime period. Tanguy and Calder undoubtedly influenced one another at this time and, interestingly, Calder went on record as saying to Tanguy that he should ‘put more red in his painting’ (Calder, quoted in Tanguy/Calder. Between Surrealism and Abstraction, exh. cat., New York, 2010, p. 65). With its distinctive, narrow, spiky, stone-like forms, colourfully climbing against a what appears to be a cloudy sky, the strong vermillions and scarlets on display in this work appear to suggest that Tanguy took Calder at his word.
Sans titre (Taille de guêpe) ('Untitled (Narrow Waist)') is an exquisite gouache painting made by Yves Tanguy during his years in America. Painted in 1945, it belongs to the period in which Tanguy first moved, with his wife, the American artist Kay Sage, into a large house in Woodbury, Connecticut. Tanguy was advised in this move by the artist Alexander Calder, a fellow resident of Connecticut in nearby Roxbury and someone with whom Tanguy worked closely and saw often during the wartime period. Tanguy and Calder undoubtedly influenced one another at this time and, interestingly, Calder went on record as saying to Tanguy that he should ‘put more red in his painting’ (Calder, quoted in Tanguy/Calder. Between Surrealism and Abstraction, exh. cat., New York, 2010, p. 65). With its distinctive, narrow, spiky, stone-like forms, colourfully climbing against a what appears to be a cloudy sky, the strong vermillions and scarlets on display in this work appear to suggest that Tanguy took Calder at his word.