Yves Tanguy
French Painter (1900 – 1955)
French Painter (1900 – 1955)
Drawing
Signed by artist
7" x 9"
Framed13" x 15.5"
Drawing
Signed by artist
4.5" x 5.5"
Framed: 12" x 13"
Yves Tanguy in his Paris atelier, as photographed by Denise Bellon (1938)
Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955), known as just Yves Tanguy (/ˌiːv tɒ̃ˈɡiː/, French: [iv tɑ̃ɡi]), was a French surrealist painter
Born January 5, 1900 Paris, France
Died. January 15, 1955 (aged 55)
Patron(s) Pierre Matisse
Wikipedia
Tanguy's paintings have a unique, immediately recognizable style of nonrepresentational surrealism. They show vast, abstract landscapes, mostly in a tightly limited palette of colors, only occasionally showing flashes of contrasting color accents. Typically, these alien landscapes are populated with various abstract shapes, sometimes angular and sharp as shards of glass, sometimes with an intriguingly organic look to them, like giant amoebae suddenly turned to stone. -wikipedia