Art Appreciation
French surrealist painter Yves Tanguy was born in Paris on January 5, 1900.
In his early 20s, at the end of his military service, he was inspired by a painting by Italian surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico to become an artist. Through his friend, French poet Jacques Prévert, he was introduced into the circle of artists around principal theorist of surrealism, André Breton.
He developed a unique painting style which led him to get his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1927. It's said his style is immediately recognizable for its nonrepresentational surrealism of vast abstract landscapes populated with abstract shapes.
Tanguy lived a bohemian lifestyle of a struggling artist, until his art work was exhibited at Peggy Guggenheim's gallery Guggenheim Jeune in 1938. Supposedly, he had an intense affair with Peggy Guggenheim which may have contributed to his divorce of his first wife, Jeanette Ducrocq.
Around that time, he met American surrealist artist Kay Sage, who he later married. He would follower her back to the United States where they spent the rest of their lives.
Source:
Wikipedia
https://www.surrealists.co.uk/viewPicture/233/
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/4034
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78701
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