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Yves Tanguy

Died – Woodbury, Connecticut, USA 1955

Yves Tanguy spent his late teens and early twenties and early officer at sea and in military service. Despite such an unprepossessing start, on his return to Paris in 1922, he taught himself to sketch and paint. His enthusiasm gathered momentum in part due to the impact made upon him by the work of de Chirico. He came into contact with André Breton in 1925 and joined the Surrealist circle of artists. His own painting developed the biomorphic style of the movement, recalling the landscapes of his childhood vacations and suggesting the marine imagery and oceanic depths that featured in his past. In Dehors, amorphous forms rather than abstract shapes float in a subconscious sea; an imaginary space becomes a place within a dream, at once beautiful and disconcerting. Tanguy emigrated to America in 1939. He married painter Kay Sage in 1940 and they settled in Woodbury in 1942. A darker tonality pervades his later works, bony forms and pseudo-rock formations proliferate, seen in Daliesque, illusionistic perspective.

Masterpieces:

• The Rapidity of Sleep
• The Invisibles

Text: The A-Z of Art, Nicola Hodge and Libby Anson.

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