Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy

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Yves Tanguy was a French Surrealist painter born in Paris on January 5, 1900. After his father's death in 1908, he moved with his mother to Locronan, Brittany. He briefly served in the French merchant marine and army, where he befriended Jacques Prévert. Returning to Paris in 1922, he worked odd jobs and began sketching. In 1923, a painting by Giorgio de Chirico profoundly inspired him to take up painting without formal training. Through Prévert, he joined André Breton's Surrealist circle around 1924-1925, quickly adopting automatism to create dreamlike, abstract landscapes with invented forms resembling marine life or rock formations in barren settings.

Surrealism with abstract, dreamlike landscapes featuring invented biomorphic forms