Yves Tanguy American, born France, 1900–1955
The Rapidity of Sleep
1945
Yves Tanguy's 'The Rapidity of Sleep' ('La Rapidité des sommeils', 1945) is a classic Surrealist landscape by the French-American painter — ambiguous biomorphic forms cast long shadows across a smoothly modelled, empty plain that is half ocean floor, half dream. Oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago.
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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago