The Rapidity of Sleep

1. The artist, Woodbury, CT; sold to Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, Apr. 30, 1945 [Pierre Matisse Gallery Records, Purchases Stock Book, 1932-1947, Page 45, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 4, 1946 [Pierre Matisse Gallery Records, Stock Book 1931-1969, Page 48, copy in curatorial object file].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Yves Tanguy: Paintings, May 8-June 2, 1945, cat. 14.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, The Winterbotham Collection, May 23-June 22, 1947, no cat no.
• Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Winterbotham Collection of 20th Century European Paintings (Texas State Fair), Oct. 8-Nov. 6, 1949, no cat.
• Hartford, CT, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Yves Tanguy, Kay Sage, Aug. 10-Sept. 28, 1954, cat. 22.
• New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Yves Tanguy, Sept. 6-Oct. 30, 1955, no cat. no.
• New York, The Museum of Modern Art, René Magritte and Yves Tanguy, Oct. 1961-Oct. 1962, checklist no. 61.2937.
• Niigata, Japan, Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 20-May 29, 1994; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10-July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6-Sept. 25, 1994.
• Stuttgart, Germany, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Yves Tanguy und der Surrealismus, Dec. 9, 2000-Apr. 29, 2001, cat. 68; Houston, TX, The Menil Collection, May 31-Sept. 16, 2001.

• “Behind the Scenes of Life: Yves Tanguy ‘Veils and Reveals’ His Surrealism,” Pictures on Exhibit 6, 8 (May 1945), 11 (ill.).
• Pierre Matisse Gallery, Yves Tanguy: Paintings, exh. cat. (New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1945), cat. 14.
• Nicolas Calas, “Magic Icons,” Horizon (Nov. 1946), 304-305 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Winterbotham Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1947), no cat. no., 43 (ill.).
• Julien Levy, “Tanguy, Connecticut, Sage,” Art News, 53, 5 (September 1954), 25 (ill.).
• Wadsworth Atheneum, Yves Tanguy, Kay Sage, exh. cat. (Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1954), cat. 22, pl. 3. (ill.)
• James Thrall Soby, Yves Tanguy, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1955), 19, 52 (ill.), 53.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 444.
• Pierre Matisse and Kay Sage, Yves Tanguy: Un Recueil de ses oeuvres/A Summary of His Works (New York: P. Matisse, 1963), 156, cat. 343 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Instituto de Arte de Chicago: Presentación de Charles C. Cunningham (Buenos Aires: Editorial Codex, S.A., 1967), 15, no. 69 (ill.), 75 (color ill.).
• A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, eds., Twentieth Century European Painting (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 71, no. 4A8.
• The Art Institute of Chicago and Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, 1994).

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