Artist: Yves Tanguy (1900 - 1955)
Nationality: French
Movement: Surrealism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Yves Tanguy first began to paint after serving in the French Army in World War I. He joined the Surrealist because of the influence of Georges de Chirico in 1925. His work was sometimes categorized as Biomorphism because his forms were derived from living organisms. In 1939, Tanguy moved to the United States and married artist Kay Sage. His last paintings were Freud-like.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (58)
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Yves Tanguy From One Night to Another oil on canvas 1947
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Artist: Yves Tanguy Title: Through Birds, Through Fire and Not Through Glass Date: 1943 Medium:
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Artist: Yves Tanguy Title: Reply to Red Date: 1943 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.12
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Kay Sage The Hidden Letter oil on canvas 1943
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Yves Tanguy - The Look of Amber 1929 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Yves Tanguy - Reply to Red 1943 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Yves Tanguy - Surrealist Landscape 1935 gouache on paper, mo Hirshhorn Museum American
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Yves Tanguy - Title unknown 1928 oil on wood, hinged The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Yves Tanguy - The Rapidity of Sleep 1945 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Yves Tanguy - Through Birds, Through Fire but Not Through Glass 1943 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Yves Tanguy - Suffering Softens Stones 1948 oil on canvas Krannert Art Museum French
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Yves Tanguy - Mama, Papa is Wounded! 1927 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
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Yves Tanguy - Extinction of Useless Lights 1927 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
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Yves Tanguy
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Kay Sage Starlings, Caravans oil on canvas 1948
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Yves Doare Hommage a Paolo Veneziano Etching 1982
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Yves Saint Laurent Pair of woman's shoes faille circa 1965
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Katerine Merrill Rue Saint Yves, Chartres Etching 19th - 20th century
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Yves Saint Laurent Pair of woman's shoes sandals faille 20th century
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Yves Saint Laurent Shoulder bag cotton canvas, silk fringe, and silk cord 20th century
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Yves Saint Laurent Shoulder bag cotton canvas, silk fringe, and silk cord 20th century
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VVV, Nos. 1 (June 1942)–4 (February 1944) New York: VVV, 1942-1944Serial publication, illustrated; 4 nos.
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Yves Marie Le Gouaz 15th Century Naval Engagement 18th - 19th century
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Yves Marie Le Gouaz 15th Century Naval Engagement 18th - 19th century
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Yves Marie Le Gouaz 15th Century Naval Engagement 18th - 19th century
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Yves Marie Le Gouaz 15th Century Naval Engagement 18th - 19th century
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Yves Marie Le Gouaz 15th Century Naval Engagement 18th - 19th century
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Yves Marie Le Gouaz 15th Century Naval Engagement 18th - 19th century
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Yves Marie Le Gouaz 15th Century Naval Engagement 18th - 19th century
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Henry Wolf Saint Yves, priez pour vous 19th - 20th century
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Yves Marie Le Gouaz Napoleonic War Series I: Heroisme des Marins qui Montoient le Vaisseau *Le Vengeur* 18th - 19th century
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P. Main Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier, Marquis de Lafayette paint on ivory, gilt metal, glass 19th century
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Yves Saint Laurent Evening dress and jacket midnight blue jacket, blue-black dress silk velvet and taffeta 1980
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Evening Dress, 1969-1970 Designed by Yves Saint Laurent (French, born Algeria, 1936)French; Made Paris, Francesilk,
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Yves Klein - Untitled Anthropometry (ANT 100) 1960 dry pigment and synt Hirshhorn Museum French
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Yves Klein - Blue Monochrome 1961 dry pigment in synth The Museum of Modern Art French
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Madame Théodore Gobillard (Yves Morisot, 1838-1893), 1869 Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)Oil on canvas; 21 3/4
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Horatio Greenough, 1805-1852 Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Mortier, Marquis de Lafayette about
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Yves Klein - Anthropology: Princess Helena 1960 oil on paper on wood The Museum of Modern Art French
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Feather fan France (?), 1870s Dyed feathers; bone handle Length: 44 cm (17 5/16 in.)
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Marked by William Fleming, free 1695 Two-Handled Cup drinking vessel London, England England, (London), 1717-18
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Yves Saint Laurent Evening bag beads and rhinestones mid 20th century
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Yves Saint Laurent Evening bag glass beads and rhinestones 1950 - 1960
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Eyes, 1982 Louise Bourgeois (American, born France, 1911)Marble; H. 74-3/4, W. 54, D. 45-3/4 in.
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Yves Saint Laurent Evening bag petit point, silver, and silk 20th century
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Yves Saint Laurent Stiff Belt cotton with aniline dyes mid 20th century
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Spring in Brittany, 1874 Paul Sébillot (French, 1843-1918)Oil on wood; 14 x 10 3/4 in.
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Jacques Callot St. Potentiana,Virgin, May 19; St.Dunstan, Bishop, May 19; St.Yves,Priest and Confessor, May 19; St. Bernardine of Siena, May 20; forty-third plate from the book, Les IMAGES DE TOUS/LES SAINCTS ET SAINTES /DE L*ANN…E... (Images of A
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Kouros, 1944-45 Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904-1988)Marble; H. 117 in. (297.2 cm) Base: D. 34-1/8, W.
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Still Life with Flowers, Fan, and Pearls, 1864 Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Oil on canvas; 18
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Vincent van Gogh, Dutch (worked in France), 1853-1890 Lullaby: Madame Augustine Roulin Rocking a Cradle
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Designed by Lino Sabattini, Italian, Born in 1925 Manufactured by Orfèvrerie Christofle Como Tea and
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Designed by Lino Sabattini, Italian, Born in 1925 Manufactured by Orfèvrerie Christofle Como Tea and
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Designed by Lino Sabattini, Italian, Born in 1925 Manufactured by Orfèvrerie Christofle Como Tea and
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Designed by Lino Sabattini, Italian, Born in 1925 Manufactured by Orfèvrerie Christofle Como Tea and
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Designed by Lino Sabattini, Italian, Born in 1925 Manufactured by Orfèvrerie Christofle Como Tea and
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Paul Cézanne, French, 1839-1906 Turn in the Road about 1881 Oil on canvas 60.6 x
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Imitator of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 Portrait of a Man Oil on

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (13)
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Menil Collection: Yves Tanguy Retrospective
Tanguy succeeded, more than any other Surrealist painter, in creating a tangible but inexplicable reality of the unreal atmospher...
Joan Miró Foundation: Klee, Tanguy, Miró. Three approaches to landscape
Paul Klee (München-Buchsee, Berne, 1879 – Locarno, 1940) stands as a lone figure in the panorama of twentieth-century painting. A member of the Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter, he was also a teacher at the Bauhaus. In the 1920s he began to t...
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Palais Liechtenstein: Klee, Tanguy, Miro Three Approaches to Landscape.
The art-historical tradition of landscape painting was radically transformed by classical modernity. In the wake of the Impressionists, landscape was turned into an artful construction that uses Nature merely as a stimulus ...
Menil Collection: SURREALISM + Wunderkammer
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Menil Collection: SURREALISM + Witnesses (a Surrealist Wunderkammer)
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Phillips Collection: Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Notably, the Atheneum was the first museum in the world to purchase a painting by Salvador Dalí (1931) and the first American museum to acquire works by surrealist Joan Miró (1934), the Paris-born painter known as Balthus (1938), and American surr...
National Academy: Surrealism USA: Between 1930 and 1950
One of the most revolutionary artistic and intellectual movements of the twentieth century, Surrealism still exerts a strong appeal today, more than fifty years after its heyday. The profound influence that this world of fantasy and dream had on a...
Gold Coast City Art Gallery: Otherworlds: Images of Fantasy and Fiction
Minister for the Arts Matt Foley said this was the first Queensland Art Gallery exhibition curated and designed specifically for the youth audience to tour Queensland. 'Fantasy, surrealism and science fiction are genres which ...
Bergen Art Museum: Anxiety and Desire. Surrealism in Scandinavia 1930-1950
The Scandinavian Surrealists were eccentric and individualistic, their art received criticism and alienation in their home countries. They personally knew, exhibited internationally with and were inspired by S.Dali, P.Klee, V.Kandinsky, M.Ernst as...
National Galleries of Scotland, Dean Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art: THE SURREALIST AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER: ROLAND PENROSE AND LEE MILLER
Already a Surrealist artist of considerable talent, Penrose became a tireless champion of modern art through his activities as a collector, writer and exhibition organiser. A former Vogue model, Lee Miller was a remarkable photographer who later ...
Appleton Museum of Art: 20th Century Masterworks from the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto
Until now, this collection has not been available for loan during the 100-year history of the AGO. Following their exhibition at Appleton, these masterworks will return to Toronto and be re-installed in the AGO permanent collection galleries. The ...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...
Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris Expo: 29th Annual Modern and Contemporary Art Fair Presents 170 Galleries from 23 Countries
This year’s fair includes a rigorous selection of international galleries, focusing on individual and thematic shows, new and previously unseen works, and site-specific installations. The fair will be divided into five sections: Solo Shows; Group ...

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