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Jean Tinguely
[Swiss Kinetic Artist, 1925-1991]
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Jean Tinguely Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Jean Tinguely available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City 3 works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum Jean Tinguely, Switzerland
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Méta-matic No. 9, 1958
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Méta-mécanique (Méta-Herbin)
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California Black Knight, 1964
DaimlerChrysler Collection, Berlin Méta Maxi
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Sophia Loren's Nightmare, 1985
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany (in German)  Metamatic No. 7, 1959
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Alphabetically under "T"
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (You need to click the "right" arrow three times)
Musée d'Art Contemporain - MAC, Marseilles, France (in French)  Rotozaza I
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)  Pandémonium agréable et silencieux, 1989
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish) 
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIKART)  Click "works" & search for artworks; click "exhibitions" & search for current exhibitions worldwide
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project Ragtime, Place Igor Stravinsky
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean Tinguely  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
look inside
 Jean Tinguely: Life and Work
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