Untitled

Untitled

Yves Tanguy

1935

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This drawing shows a strange, dreamlike scene with wobbly, blob-like shapes. Two tiny figures stand on a mushroom cap, looking down at a group of squiggly, almost bone-like sticks. The whole thing is drawn in loose, sketchy ink lines on light paper. The figures have simple, rounded heads with no faces—just dots for eyes. The sticks beneath them look like they’re tangled together, almost like roots or broken limbs. If you like this odd style, look up Yves Tanguy.

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