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From the Masterworks series:Tanguy presents us with a magical submarine world and its beyond. In the center hangs a pivotal being, a yellow-white shape of a bird half shell, each part distinct yet melting into the other, suggesting a possible metamorphosis ... When one looks closely at the painting's composition, it appears to be divided into an almost artificial geographic neatness. On the right side of the painting a stem like creatures drift toward the center, which only at second glance reveals itself to be a woman's form ... Tanguy so rarely included a woman in his paintings that her presence seems all the more significant.
Author David Clarke noted that the painting is one of a number of canvases by Tanguy that has ambiguous underwater ambiance.
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