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.

Yves Tanguy was largely a self-taught artist. His artistic progress was surprisingly rapid, which can be noticed in his works from the mid-1920s. The radical change came in 1927 when his works ...