Yves Tanguy’s ambition to become an artist developed ... Papa is Wounded. The title of the work, like many others from that period, came not from Tanguy’s own mind but from the psychiatry ...

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.