Yves Tanguy
Artist
Biography
Yves Tanguy (1900–1955) was a French Surrealist painter. Born in Paris to a Breton family, he served in the merchant navy before deciding, largely self-taught, to become a painter after seeing a work by Giorgio de Chirico in a dealer's window. He joined the Surrealist group around André Breton in the mid-1920s and developed his distinctive imaginary landscapes populated by enigmatic, bone- and stone-like forms set beneath vast, hazy skies. In 1939 he moved to the United States, married the painter Kay Sage and settled in Woodbury, Connecticut, where his compositions grew denser and more crowded with forms. He became an American citizen in 1948 and died in Woodbury in 1955.