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Yves Tanguy

Yves Tanguy (1900 - 1955) was active/lived in Connecticut / France.  Yves Tanguy is known for Surreal vegetal landscape painting.

Born in Paris, Yves Tanguy became one of the leading artists of a movement called Surrealism, depictions that suggested other-worldliness and eerie circumstances. Tanguy's most characteristic works are painted in a style reminiscent of Salvadore Dalí, but his imagery is highly distinctive, featuring strange landscapes in which amorphous objects proliferate in a haunted dream world. His paintings often had indefinable inhabitants, casting long shadows across a landscape, in a meticulously detailed style that bridged realism and abstraction.

The son of a sea captain, he spent his childhood in Paris and in Brittany where the landscape with its empty plateaus, grey skies and dried bones made a great impression upon him. He also spent many hours watching a local painter at work. In 1918, he joined the Merchant Marines and traveled to South America, Africa, and England. He served in the army during World War I and returned to Paris. Already he had a reputation as an unusual human bein   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3465 characters.]  Artist bio

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© 2001 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

DEUX FOIS DU NOIR , 1941

Yves Tanguy

Lot 23
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© 2001 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

L’Extinction des espèces II , 1938

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© 2001 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Je me faisais semblant (I was Pretending to myself)

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Lot 121
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© 2001 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Un grand tableau qui représente un paysage , 1927

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Lot 35
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© 2001 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

DEUX FOIS DU NOIR , 1941

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Lot 36
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© 2001 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

DEUX FOIS DU NOIR , 1941

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