Yves Tanguy (1900 – 1955) was a French Surrealist painter. His early life and career was spent in service to the military. This changed in 1923 when Tanguy discovered Giorgio de Chirico’s artwork which inspired him to become a painter. Although he did not have any formal training, Tanguy matured quickly as an artist. In 1927, he exhibited his first works at the Galerie Surréaliste in Paris and continued to show his paintings in Surrealist galleries throughout his life.

 

Yves Tanguy’s paintings in chronological order:

I Came Like I Promised, 1926	Storm (Black Landscape), 1926	The Travelling Performers, 1926
Death Awaiting his Family, 1927	Extinction of Useless Lights, 1927	Large Painting Representing a Landscape, 1927
Mama, Papa is Wounded!, 1927	The Hand in the Clouds, 1927	Wind, 1927
Phantoms, 1928	Blue Bed, 1929	Outside, 1929
Promontory Palace, 1931	The Ribbon of Extremes, 1932	Tomorrow, 1938
Indefined Divisibility, 1942	Palace on windows rocks, 1942	Slowly Toward The North, 1942
Reply to Red, 1943	Through Birds Through Fire But Not Through Glass, 1943	Multiplicatiion of the Arcs, 1954