Below are seven important works by Yves Tanguy that you should know. Yves Tanguy’s ambition to become an artist developed during his twenties when he was already working as a cargo boat officer.

Yves Tanguy: Sailor Turned Avant-Garde Artist Yves Tanguy was one of the most important and influential Surrealist painters who had no aspiration of becoming a painter at all—at least, at first.

Art in the Barn. Christened Katherine Sage about ... later learned with Poet Andre Breton and Painter Yves Tanguy to ride the surrealist tide. In 1939 she returned to the U.S., closely followed ...