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Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955), known as just Yves Tanguy (/ ˌ iː v t ɒ̃ ˈ ɡ iː /, French: [iv tɑ̃ɡi]), was a French surrealist painter. Biography [ edit ]
Yves Tanguy was in many respects the quintessential Surrealist. A sociable eccentric who ate spiders as a party trick, and a close friend of Andre Breton , Tanguy was best-known for his misshapen rocks and molten surfaces that lent definition to the Surrealist aesthetic.
Yves Tanguy was a French-born American painter who worked in a Surrealist style. After sailing with the French merchant marine, in 1922 Tanguy returned to Paris, where he worked odd jobs and began sketching in cafés.
Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955), known as Yves Tanguy, was a French surrealist painter. Tanguy, the son of a retired navy captain, was born at the Ministry of Naval Affairs on Place de la Concorde in Paris, France.
Cadavre Exquis, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) Nude. 1926–27
Yves Tanguy was an American-French early Surrealist painter whose work was influential to many noteworthy artists and thinkers, includimg Isamu Noguchi, David Hare, and Roberto Matta. View Yves Tanguy’s 996 artworks on artnet.
The French painter Yves Tanguy was a prominent member of the Paris Surrealist group. His work was considered by André Breton to epitomise the movement and in the 1940s he powerfully influenced the generation of young artists, among them Roberto Matta, Wolfgang Paalen and Esteban Francés.
