The Palace of the Windowed Rocks

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Le Palais aux rochers de fenetres (The

Palace of the Windowed Rocks)

Artist Yves Tanguy

Year 1942
Medium Oil on canvas
Movement Surrealism
Dimensions 163 cm × 132 cm (64 in × 52 in)
Location Musée National d'Art
Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris,
France[1]
The Palace of the Windowed Rocks (French: Le Palais aux rochers de fenetres) is a 1942
[2][3]
painting by French surrealist painter Yves Tanguy.

Description[edit]
The title of the painting is comes from the influence of the Atlas Mountains in Tanguy's work,
[4]
which he referred to as "castles".  The canvas has been described as depicting a desolate
lunar landscape that shows, "a world that only looks as if it were real but appears as a
coherence of facts put together with unshakable necessity...and it realizes a kind of world
experiencing with correlative objects that seem to be real (comparable to a trompe-l'œil)
[2]
although they can never be found in the real world (contrary to a trompe-l'œil)."

Influence[edit]
Writer and gallery curator Mike Evans has called The Palace of the Windowed Rocks Tanguy's
[5]
most famous painting.  The painting was used by Penguin Books for the 1965 paperback
[6][7][8]
cover of J. G. Ballard's post-apocalyptic novel The Drowned World.

References[edit]
1. ^ Pate Havlice, Patricia (1995). World Painting Index: Titles of works and
 their painters - Volume 2 of World Painting Index: Second Supplement,
1980-1989. University of Virginia: Scarecrow Press.
p. 1563. ISBN 9780810830202.
2. ^ Jump up to:
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   Ranier Sepp, Hans. "Possible Necessities. A Phenomenological
Analysis of Yves Tanguy's The Palace of the Windowed
Rocks". Phenomenology 2010. 4 (2011): 493–502. doi:
10.7761/9789731997728.20. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
3. ^ von Maur, Karin (2001). Yves Tanguy and Surrealism. Englische
Ausgabe. Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Company KG. p. 101,
223. ISBN 978-1-68325-473-7.
4. ^ Brodskaya, Natalia (2018). Surrealism. Paris.
p. 344. ISBN 978-1-68325-473-7.
5. ^ Evans, Mike (2008). Defining Moments in Art: Over a Century of the
Greatest Artists, Exhibitions, People, Artworks, and Events that Rocked
the Art World. Cassell Illustrated. p. 344. ISBN 9781844036400.
6. ^ Matthews, Nicole; Moody, Nickianne, eds. (2007). Judging a Book by Its
Cover: Fans, Publishers, Designers, and the Marketing. Burington, VT:
Ashgate Publishing Limited. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-7546-5731-6.