The 28 Artworks of Yves Tanguy

This is an important work in Tanguy's oeuvre, marking a shift from the spacious 'underwater landscapes' of the late 1920s to a world packed with intricately-drawn, bean-like forms. These shapes sit like a sculpted frieze at the bottom of the painting. Tanguy's works of the 1930s, in which weird obje...

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Interlocking organic shapes of dull and sharp appendages support one another like a monument in Tanguy's characteristic space. Having met the poet André Breton in 1925, Tanguy remained true to the Surrealist movement throughout his work, borrowing shapes and motifs from Jean Arp and Joan Miró.

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Tanguy’s debt to the still and imaginative landscapes of the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico is apparent in the perplexing array of imagery that includes a small school of fish and a child flattened by a cart. The plain white tower in the background—a favorite iconographic motif of de Chirico—secu...

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During 1952 and 1953 Tanguy produced a marvelous series of drawings, but few paintings, in part because of ill health, in part because he and his wife traveled abroad to attend the openings of their solo exhibitions in Paris and Rome. (Tanguy also showed his pictures in Milan.) But back in Woodbury,...

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