Les Nouveaux Nomades
Artist
Yves Tanguy
(French, 1900-1955)
Date1935
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsImage: 31 3/4 x 27 7/16 in. (80.6 x 69.7 cm)
Frame: 36 1/2 × 30 1/16 × 1 3/4 in. (92.7 × 76.4 × 4.4 cm)
Frame: 36 1/2 × 30 1/16 × 1 3/4 in. (92.7 × 76.4 × 4.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of the Estate of Kay Sage Tanguy, 1964
Object numberSN782
The New Nomads is a characteristic landscape by this Surrealist artist. The nomads in the title are nowhere to be seen, and the absence of human figures is made even stranger by the fact that this composition was painted over a still faintly visible human figure. Yves Tanguy nevertheless uses typical landscape formulas such as perspective, light and shadow to create illusionistic depth. However, this painting is better defined as a "mindscape" than a landscape. It depicts the world of the imagination and reveals phantoms from a time that seems never to have existed.
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19th Century
