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Yves Tanguy

♂  American, born France. 1900–1955

Yves Tanguy has been in 53 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1936 and 1988.

53 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art

2 March to 19 April 1936

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

7 December 1936 to 17 January 1937

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection and on Loan

23 June to 4 November 1937

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting, Sculpture, Prints

10 May to 30 September 1939

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

23 October 1940 to 12 January 1941

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

6 May to 30 April 1941

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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New Acquisitions: Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

23 July to 29 September 1941

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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New Acquisitions: Photography by Alfred Stieglitz, European and American Art

16 December 1942 to 28 February 1943

Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Giorgio de Chirico and Vasily Kandinsky, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting, Sculpture, Prints

24 May to 15 October 1944

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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What is Modern Painting?

6–25 March 1945

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture

20 June 1945 to 13 February 1946

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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The Museum Collection of Painting

19 February to 5 May 1946

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection

2 July 1946 to 12 September 1954

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Paintings from New York Private Collections

2 July to 22 September 1946

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

15 April to 1 June 1947

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Collage

21 September to 5 December 1948

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Georges Braque and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Timeless Aspects of Modern Art

16 November 1948 to 23 January 1949

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Paintings from the Museum Collection

23 December 1948 to 13 March 1949

Max Ernst, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Master Prints from the Museum Collection

10 May to 10 July 1949

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Art in Your Life

5 October to 4 December 1949

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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American Prints of the 20th Century

8 September to 28 November 1954

William S. Lieberman, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

19 October 1954 to 6 February 1955

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection: New Acquisitions

5 March to 24 April 1955

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Yves Tanguy

6 September to 30 October 1955

Yves Tanguy, James Thrall Soby and Margaret Miller were involved.

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Selections from the Art Lending Service

24 March to 17 April 1960

Georges Braque, William S. Lieberman, Max Ernst and André Derain, among others, were involved.

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Painting and Sculpture from the James Thrall Soby Collection

1 February to 4 March 1961

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Allegories

19 August 1961 to 30 January 1962

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall and Giorgio de Chirico, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Art of Assemblage

4 October to 12 November 1961

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Georges Braque and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Fifty Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

10 April to 12 August 1962

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Georges Braque and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

Started 27 May 1964

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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From the Museum Collections: Family Portraits

27 May 1964 to 7 February 1965

Ben Shahn, Max Beckmann, Henry Moore and Yves Tanguy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings from the Museum Collections: A Selection

27 May 1964 to 23 March 1965

Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions: Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest

17 September to 14 December 1965

Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder and André Masson, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage

27 March to 9 June 1968

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Jasper Johns and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

18 February to 30 March 1969

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection

24 December 1969 to 1 March 1970

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ben Shahn and Charles Sheeler, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Surrealist Illusion from the Museum Collection

11 February to 18 April 1971

Giorgio de Chirico, Yves Tanguy, Roberto Matta and William S. Rubin, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Ways of Looking

28 July to 1 November 1971

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

18 October 1972 to 7 January 1973

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Seurat to Matisse: Drawing in France

13 June to 8 September 1974

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Prints: 1913–1963

3 December 1974 to 3 March 1975

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ben Shahn and Charles Sheeler, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America

20 August to 14 November 1976

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Prints: Acquisitions, 1973–1976

23 November 1976 to 20 February 1977

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Dream/Reality/Dream

26 September to 28 November 1977

Max Ernst, Odilon Redon, Jean Dubuffet and André Masson, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Arp on Paper

15 December 1977 to 5 March 1978

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The James Thrall Soby Bequest

22 March to 9 May 1979

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Giorgio de Chirico and Jean Dubuffet, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Gifts of Drawing

9 August to 13 November 1979

Joan Miró, Paul Klee, William S. Lieberman and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Art of the Twenties

14 November 1979 to 22 January 1980

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions: Drawings

19 March to 2 June 1981

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Words and Pictures

20 August to 6 October 1981

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Georges Braque and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881–1981

1–16 March 1982

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

6 August to 8 December 1987

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition European Drawing Between the Wars

24 October 1987 to 1 March 1988

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.