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.

Yves Tanguy was largely a self-taught artist. His artistic progress was surprisingly rapid, which can be noticed in his works from the mid-1920s. The radical change came in 1927 when his works ...

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 ...