My Life Black and White by Yves Tanguy in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2008

Yves Tanguy. American, born in France, 1900-1955.

My Life, Black and White
1944
Oil on canvas

Accession # 1999.363.81

Interlocking organic shapes of sharp and dull appendages support one another like a monument in Tanguy's characteristic space. Having met the poet Andre Breton in 1925, Tanguy remained true to the Surrealist movement throughout his work, borrowing shapes and motifs from Jean Arp and Joan Miro.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.