he befriended the son of Henri Matisse and visited his father’s studio, observing his Fauvist canvases. In a village in Brittany, where the Tanguy family spent their summers, young Yves met a ...

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.