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TANGUY Yves, born 1900 Paris - 1955 Woodbury (CT) American painter of French origin. Self-taught. |
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| 1918-20 | Joined the French merchant marine. Sailed
on a freighter to England, Spain, Portugal, and South
America. |
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| 1920-23 | Military service. |
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| 1923 | He decided to
become a painter after seeing a painting by De Chirico in
a window at the Galerie Paul Guillaume in Paris. In his
first pictures he extended De Chirico's spatial
confinment into an unending vista: eliminating facades,
architecture, faces, and monuments and taking up his
favourite subject, the infinite panorama of the sea. |
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| 1925 | Met André Breton
and the Surrealist painters, and showed his fantastic
landscapes peopled with amorphous, unidentifiable object
and weird sculptural constructions in their exhibitions. |
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| 1939 | Emigrated, along
with many of the Surrealists, to America and settled in
Woodbury, where he lived on a farm. |
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| 1942 | Took part in the
exhibition 'Artists in Exile' at the Pierre Matisse
Gallery, New York, and in the Surrealist exhibition
organised by Breton and Duchamp at the Reid Mansion. |
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| 1948 | Became an
American citizen. |
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| 1982 | Important
retrospectives at the Baden-Baden Kunsthalle and at the
Pompidou Centre, Paris. |
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