Who is Yves Tanguy?

Yves Tanguy (1900-1955) was a French Surrealist painter known for vast, otherworldly landscapes populated by abstract biomorphic forms. Self-taught after seeing a Giorgio de Chirico painting that inspired him to become an artist, Tanguy developed a distinctive style featuring endless horizons, strange rock-like shapes, and atmospheres suggesting alien planets or oceanic depths. His paintings like ‘Mama, Papa is Wounded!’ and ‘Indefinite Divisibility’ create immersive dreamscapes that influenced science fiction imagery and contemporary Visionary Art. Tanguy’s biomorphic forms exist in ambiguous spaces that evoke the sublime and the uncanny. He married fellow Surrealist Kay Sage and spent his later years in Connecticut.