Below are seven important works by Yves Tanguy that you should know. Yves Tanguy’s ambition to become an artist developed during his twenties when he was already working as a cargo boat officer.

Yves Tanguy Moved to the USA By the mid-1930s, Tanguy became an unexpectedly rich and famous artist in high demand. He never learned how to spend that money properly.

In the ’20s she married and divorced an Italian prince, later learned with Poet Andre Breton and Painter Yves Tanguy to ride the surrealist tide. In 1939 she returned to the U.S., closely ...