Yves Tanguy
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Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955), known as Yves Tanguy, was a French surrealist painter.
, France
, the son of a retired navy captain. His parents were both of Breton
origin. After his father's death in 1908, his mother moved back to her native Locronan
, Finistère
, and he ended up spending much of his youth living with various relatives.
In 1918, Yves Tanguy briefly joined the merchant navy before being drafted into the Army, where he befriended Jacques Prévert
. At the end of his military service in 1922, he returned to Paris, where he worked various odd jobs. By chance, he stumbled upon a painting by Giorgio de Chirico
and was so deeply impressed he resolved to become a painter himself in spite of his complete lack of formal training.
Tanguy had a habit of being completely absorbed by the current painting he was working on. This way of creating artwork may have been due to his very small studio which only had enough room for one wet piece.
Through his friend Jacques Prévert, in around 1924 Tanguy was introduced into the circle of surrealist
artists around André Breton
. Tanguy quickly began to develop his own unique painting style
, giving his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1927, and marrying his first wife later that same year. During this busy time of his life, André Breton gave Tanguy a contract to paint 12 pieces a year. With his fixed income, he painted less and only ended up creating eight works of art for Breton.
Throughout the 1930s, Tanguy adopted the bohemian lifestyle of the struggling artist with gusto, leading eventually to the failure of his first marriage. In 1938, after seeing the work of fellow artist Kay Sage
, Tanguy began a relationship with her that would eventually lead to his second marriage.
With the outbreak of World War II
, Sage moved back to her native New York
, and Tanguy, judged unfit for military service, followed her. He would spend the rest of his life in the United States. Sage and Tanguy were married in Reno, Nevada
on August 17, 1940. Toward the end of the war, the couple moved to Woodbury, Connecticut
, converting an old farmhouse into an artists' studio. They spent the rest of their lives there. In 1948, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States
.
In January 1955, Tanguy suffered a fatal stroke at Woodbury. His body was cremated and his ashes preserved until Sage's death in 1963. Later, his ashes were scattered by his friend Pierre Matisse
on the beach at Douarnenez in his beloved Brittany
, together with those of his wife.
Yves Tanguy's paintings have a unique, immediately recognizable style of nonrepresentational surrealism. They show vast, abstract landscapes, mostly in a tightly limited palette of colors, only occasionally showing flashes of contrasting color accents. Typically, these alien landscapes are populated with various abstract shapes, sometimes angular and sharp as shards of glass, sometimes with an intriguingly organic look to them, like giant amoeba
e suddenly turned to stone.
Biography
Tanguy was born in ParisParis
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, the son of a retired navy captain. His parents were both of Breton
Brittany
Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...
origin. After his father's death in 1908, his mother moved back to her native Locronan
Locronan
Locronan is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.Locronan is a member of the [Les Plus Beaux Villages de France]] association.-The place name:...
, Finistère
Finistère
Finistère is a département of France, in the extreme west of Brittany.-History:The name Finistère derives from the Latin Finis Terræ, meaning end of the earth, and may be compared with Land's End on the opposite side of the English Channel...
, and he ended up spending much of his youth living with various relatives.
In 1918, Yves Tanguy briefly joined the merchant navy before being drafted into the Army, where he befriended Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain very popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. Some of the movies he wrote are extremely well regarded, with Les Enfants du Paradis considered one of the greatest films of all time.-Life and...
. At the end of his military service in 1922, he returned to Paris, where he worked various odd jobs. By chance, he stumbled upon a painting by Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement...
and was so deeply impressed he resolved to become a painter himself in spite of his complete lack of formal training.
Tanguy had a habit of being completely absorbed by the current painting he was working on. This way of creating artwork may have been due to his very small studio which only had enough room for one wet piece.
Through his friend Jacques Prévert, in around 1924 Tanguy was introduced into the circle of surrealist
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
artists around André Breton
André Breton
André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism"....
. Tanguy quickly began to develop his own unique painting style
Painting style
In the visual arts, style is a "...distinctive manner which permits the grouping of works into related categories." or "...any distinctive, and therefore recognizable, way in which an act is performed or an artifact made or ought to be performed and made." It refers to the visual appearance of a...
, giving his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1927, and marrying his first wife later that same year. During this busy time of his life, André Breton gave Tanguy a contract to paint 12 pieces a year. With his fixed income, he painted less and only ended up creating eight works of art for Breton.
Throughout the 1930s, Tanguy adopted the bohemian lifestyle of the struggling artist with gusto, leading eventually to the failure of his first marriage. In 1938, after seeing the work of fellow artist Kay Sage
Kay Sage
Katherine Linn Sage , usually known as Kay Sage, was an American Surrealist artist and poet.-Biography:...
, Tanguy began a relationship with her that would eventually lead to his second marriage.
With the outbreak of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, Sage moved back to her native New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, and Tanguy, judged unfit for military service, followed her. He would spend the rest of his life in the United States. Sage and Tanguy were married in Reno, Nevada
Reno, Nevada
Reno is the county seat of Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The city has a population of about 220,500 and is the most populous Nevada city outside of the Las Vegas metropolitan area...
on August 17, 1940. Toward the end of the war, the couple moved to Woodbury, Connecticut
Woodbury, Connecticut
Woodbury is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 9,198 at the 2000 census. The town center is also designated by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place . Woodbury was founded in 1672....
, converting an old farmhouse into an artists' studio. They spent the rest of their lives there. In 1948, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
In January 1955, Tanguy suffered a fatal stroke at Woodbury. His body was cremated and his ashes preserved until Sage's death in 1963. Later, his ashes were scattered by his friend Pierre Matisse
Pierre Matisse
Pierre Matisse was an art dealer active in New York City. He was the youngest child of French painter Henri Matisse.-Background and early years:...
on the beach at Douarnenez in his beloved Brittany
Brittany
Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...
, together with those of his wife.
Yves Tanguy's paintings have a unique, immediately recognizable style of nonrepresentational surrealism. They show vast, abstract landscapes, mostly in a tightly limited palette of colors, only occasionally showing flashes of contrasting color accents. Typically, these alien landscapes are populated with various abstract shapes, sometimes angular and sharp as shards of glass, sometimes with an intriguingly organic look to them, like giant amoeba
Amoeba
Amoeba is a genus of Protozoa.History=The amoeba was first discovered by August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof in 1757. Early naturalists referred to Amoeba as the Proteus animalcule after the Greek god Proteus, who could change his shape...
e suddenly turned to stone.
1920s
- Vite! Vite! (1924)
- Rue de la Santé (1925) The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Self Portrait (1925) Private Collection
- Dancing (1925) Private Collection
- The Testament of Jacques Prévert (1925) Private Collection
- Fantômas (1925–26) Private Collection
- The Storm (1926)
- The Lighthouse (1926) Private Collection, France
- The Girl with Red Hair (1926) Private Collection
- Title Unknown (The Giantess, The Ladder) (1926) Private Collection
- I Came As I Had Promised. Adieu (1926) Dieter Scharf Collection Foundation
- The Storm (Black Landscape) (1926) Philadelphia Museum of ArtPhiladelphia Museum of ArtThe Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States. It is located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The Museum was established in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year...
- Woman Dreaming (Sleeping) (1926) Private Collection
- Composition (1927) Private Collection
- A Large Painting Which is a Landscape (1927)
- Death Watching His Family (1927) Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
- Second Message II (Third Message) (1927) Private Collection
- Someone Is Ringing (1927) Private Collection, Switzerland
- There! (The Evening Before) (1927) Menil CollectionMenil CollectionThe Menil Collection, located in Houston refers either to a museum that houses the private art collection of founders John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, or to the collection itself...
, Houston - He Did What He Wanted (1927) Richard S Zisler Collection, New York
- Shadow Country (1927) The Detroit Institute of Arts
- Mama, Papa is wounded! (1927) The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Extinction of Useless Lights (1927) The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- The Hand in the Clouds (1927) Staatsgalerie StuttgartStaatsgalerie StuttgartThe Staatsgalerie Stuttgart is an art gallery and art museum in Stuttgart, Germany, opened in 1843. In 1984 the opening of the Neue Staatsgalerie designed by James Stirling transformed the once provincial gallery into one of Europe's leading museums.-Alte Staatsgalerie:Originally, the classicist...
- Finish What I Have Begun (1927) Private Collection
- Belomancy I (1927) Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofiaMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofíaThe Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía is the official name of Spain's national museum of 20th century art . The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992 and is named for Queen Sofia of Spain...
, Madrid - Surrealist Landscape (1927) Staatlishe Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
- Title Unknown (Surrealist Composition) (1927) Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, Berlin
- Title Unknown (He Comes) (1928) Private Collection
- Old Horizon (1928) National Gallery of AustraliaNational Gallery of AustraliaThe National Gallery of Australia is the national art gallery of Australia, holding more than 120,000 works of art. It was established in 1967 by the Australian government as a national public art gallery.- Establishment :...
, Canberra - Unspoken Depths (1928) Private Collection
- The Dark Garden (1928) Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-WestfalenKunstsammlung Nordrhein-WestfalenThe Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is the art collection of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, located in Düsseldorf. United by this institution are three different exhibition venues: the K20 at Grabbeplatz, the K21 in the Ständehaus and the Schmela Haus...
, Düsseldorf - Tomorrow They Shoot Me (1928) Hildén Art Museum, Tempere, Finland
- Tabernacle (1928)
- Landscape with Red Cloud (1928) Private Collection
- Title Unknown (1928) Collection of Mr and Mrs Jack Wolgin
- Indifferent Drouning/Indifferent Walnut Tree (1929) Private Collection
- Perfect Balance (1929) Gunter Sachs Collection
- Outside (1929) Scottish National Gallery of Modern ArtScottish National Gallery of Modern ArtThe Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, holds the national collection of modern art. When opened in 1960, the collection was held in Inverleith House, at the Royal Botanic Gardens...
, Edinburgh - Lit Bleu (1929) Private Collection
- Inspiration (1929) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes
- L’Avion (1929)
- The Look of Amber (1929) The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
- The Lovers (1929) Museum FolkwangMuseum FolkwangMuseum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th and 20th century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, founded in 1901.The term...
, Essen - Derive d'Azur (1929) Museum LudwigMuseum LudwigMuseum Ludwig, located in Cologne, Germany, houses a collection of modern art. It includes works from PopArt, Abstract and Surrealism, and has one of the largest Picasso collections in Europe. It also features many works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein....
, Köln - Out of the Blue (1929) Private Collection
- The Lurid Sky (1929) Mount Holyoke College Museum
- Views (1929) Private Collection
- Satin Pillow (1929) Art Gallery of OntarioArt Gallery of OntarioUnder the direction of its CEO Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO embarked on a $254 million redevelopment plan by architect Frank Gehry in 2004, called Transformation AGO. The new addition would require demolition of the 1992 Post-Modernist wing by Barton Myers and Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg...
, Toronto
1930s
- Cloud (1930) Private Collection
- La Splendeur Semblable (1930)
- Neither Legends Nor Figures (1930) Menil CollectionMenil CollectionThe Menil Collection, located in Houston refers either to a museum that houses the private art collection of founders John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, or to the collection itself...
, Houston - Clouds of Earth (The Man) (1930) Private Collection
- Similar Resplendence (1930) KunstmuseumKunstmuseumKunstmuseum is the German term for an art collection open to the public, mainly based on previous feudal holdings. English terms like art museum, museum of arts or art gallery, however, cover only part of its meaning, and on the other hand, art collections with a long tradition nowadays may never...
, Basel - Tower of the West (1931) Kunstmuseum WinterthurKunstmuseum WinterthurKunstmuseum Winterthur is an art museum in Winterthur, Switzerland run up today by the local Kunstverein, founded in CHK...
- Promontory Palace (1931) Peggy Guggenheim CollectionPeggy Guggenheim CollectionThe Peggy Guggenheim Collection is an art museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is one of several museums of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation....
, Venice - The Armoire of Proteus (1931) Private Collection
- Four-Part Screen (The Firmament) (1932) Berardo Collection, Lisbon
- The Heart of the Tower (1933) Private Collection
- The Certitude of the Never-Seen (1933) The Art Institute of Chicago
- Between the Grass and the Wind (1934) Private Collection
- The End of the Rope (1934) Private Collection
- I Am Waiting for You (1934) Los Angeles County Museum of ArtLos Angeles County Museum of ArtThe Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....
- The Passage of a Smile (1935) The Toledo Museum of Art
- Echelles (1935) Manchester Art GalleryManchester Art GalleryManchester Art Gallery is a publicly-owned art gallery in Manchester, England. It was formerly known as Manchester City Art Gallery.The gallery was opened in 1824 and today occupies three buildings, the oldest of which - designed by Sir Charles Barry - is Grade I listed and was originally home to...
- The Meeting-Place of Parallels (1935) KunstmuseumKunstmuseumKunstmuseum is the German term for an art collection open to the public, mainly based on previous feudal holdings. English terms like art museum, museum of arts or art gallery, however, cover only part of its meaning, and on the other hand, art collections with a long tradition nowadays may never...
, Basel - Title Unknown (Metaphysical Landscape) (1935) Staatsgalerie StuttgartStaatsgalerie StuttgartThe Staatsgalerie Stuttgart is an art gallery and art museum in Stuttgart, Germany, opened in 1843. In 1984 the opening of the Neue Staatsgalerie designed by James Stirling transformed the once provincial gallery into one of Europe's leading museums.-Alte Staatsgalerie:Originally, the classicist...
- Palming (1935) Private Collection, Hamburg
- The New Nomads (1935) John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota
- The Geometer of Dreams (1935) Private Collection
- Untitled (1935) Collection of Carlo F. Bilotti
- Heredity of Acquired Characteristics (1936) Menil CollectionMenil CollectionThe Menil Collection, located in Houston refers either to a museum that houses the private art collection of founders John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, or to the collection itself...
, Houston - L’Extinction des Especes (1936)
- From the Other Side of the Bridge (1936) Private Collection, New York
- The Nest of the Amphioxus (1936) Museum of GrenobleMuseum of GrenobleThe Museum of Grenoble is a city museum of Fine Arts and antiques in the city of Grenoble in France.Located on the left bank of the Isère, place Lavalette, it is known both for its collections of ancient art for its collections of modern and contemporary art..-History:The Museum of Grenoble was...
- Treasures of the Sea (1936) Private Collection
- Fragile (1936)
- Way of Heredity (1936) Private Collection
- The Air in Her Mirror (1937) Sprengel MuseumSprengel MuseumThe Sprengel Museum in Hanover houses one of the most significant collections of modern art in Germany. It is located in a building designed by Peter and Ursula Trint and Dieter Quast , adjacent to the Maschsee...
, Hanover - Les Filles des Consequences (1937)
- The Doubter (The Interrogation) (1937) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenThe Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft and is part of the...
, Washington DC - The Sun in its Jewel Case (1937)
- Lingering Day (1937) Musée National d'Art ModerneMusée National d'Art ModerneThe Musée National d'Art Moderne is the national museum for modern art of France. It is located in Paris and is housed in the Centre Pompidou in the 4th arrondissement of the city. Created in 1947, it was then housed in the Palais de Tokyo and moved to its current location in 1977...
, Centre Pompidou, Paris - Movements and Acts (1937) Smith College Museum of Art
- Title Unknown (Landscape) (1938) Private Collection
- Familiar Little Person (1938) Musée National d'Art ModerneMusée National d'Art ModerneThe Musée National d'Art Moderne is the national museum for modern art of France. It is located in Paris and is housed in the Centre Pompidou in the 4th arrondissement of the city. Created in 1947, it was then housed in the Palais de Tokyo and moved to its current location in 1977...
, Centre Pompidou, Paris - Ennui and Tranquility (1938) Private Collection
- Boredom and tranquillity (1938) The Jeffrey H. Loria Collection
- Hidden Thoughts (My Hidden Thoughts) (1939) San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtThe San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art...
- If it Were (1939) Private Collection
- La Rue aux Levres (1939)
- The Furniture of Time (1939) The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- The Great Nacre Butterfly (1939) Private Collection
- Second Thoughts (1939) San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtThe San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art...
- Satin Tuning-Fork (1939) Collection of Mr and Mrs Jacques Gelman
1940s
- Belomancy II (1940) Private Collection
- The Witness (1940) Collection of Mr and Mrs Frederick R. Weisman
- A Little Later (1940) Private Collection
- The Earth and the Air (1941) Baltimore Museum of ArtBaltimore Museum of ArtThe Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, was founded in 1914. Built in the Roman Temple style, the Museum is home to an internationally renowned collection of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art. Founded in 1914 with a single painting, the BMA today has 90,000 works...
- On Slanting Ground (1941) Peggy Guggenheim CollectionPeggy Guggenheim CollectionThe Peggy Guggenheim Collection is an art museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is one of several museums of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation....
, Venice - The Five Strangers (1941) Wadsworth AtheneumWadsworth AtheneumThe Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States, with significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings in early American furniture and...
, Hartford - The Palace of Windowed Rocks (1942) Musée National d'Art ModerneMusée National d'Art ModerneThe Musée National d'Art Moderne is the national museum for modern art of France. It is located in Paris and is housed in the Centre Pompidou in the 4th arrondissement of the city. Created in 1947, it was then housed in the Palais de Tokyo and moved to its current location in 1977...
, Centre Pompidou, Paris - Naked Water (1942) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenThe Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft and is part of the...
, Washington DC - The Long Rain (1942) Honolulu Academy of ArtsHonolulu Academy of ArtsThe Honolulu Academy of Arts is an art museum in Honolulu in the state of Hawaii. Since its founding in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke and opening April 8, 1927, its collections have grown to over 40,000 works of art.-Description:...
- Indefinite Divisibility (1942) Albright-Knox Art GalleryAlbright-Knox Art GalleryThe Albright-Knox Art Gallery is an art museum located in Delaware Park in Buffalo, New York. The gallery is a major showplace for modern art and contemporary art. It is located directly across the street from Buffalo State College.-History:...
, Buffalo - The Absent Lady (1942) Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-WestfalenKunstsammlung Nordrhein-WestfalenThe Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is the art collection of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, located in Düsseldorf. United by this institution are three different exhibition venues: the K20 at Grabbeplatz, the K21 in the Ständehaus and the Schmela Haus...
, Düsseldorf - The Great Mutation (1942) The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Slowly Toward the North (1942) The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- The Stone in the Tree (1942) The Arizona State UniversityArizona State UniversityArizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...
Art Museum, Tempe - Minotaur (1943) Fundació Joan MiróFundació Joan MiróThe ' is a museum of modern art honoring Joan Miró and located on the hill called Montjuïc in Barcelona, Catalonia.-History:...
, Barcelona - Through Birds, Through Fire and Not Through Glass (1943) The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Reply to Red (1943) The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Zones D’Instabilite (1943)
- Equicocal Colors (1943) Private Collection
- The Prodigal Never Returns I (1943) Collection of Mr and Mrs Leonard Yaseen
- The Prodigal Never Returns II (1943) Collection of Mr and Mrs Leonard Yaseen
- The Prodigal Never Returns III (1943) Collection of Mr and Mrs Leonard Yaseen
- The Prodigal Never Returns IV (1943) Collection of Mr and Mrs Leonard Yaseen
- Distances (1944) Private Collection
- Twice (1944) Private Collection
- The Tower of the Sea (1944) Washington University Gallery of Art, St Louis
- My Life, White and Black (1944) Collection of Mr and Mrs Jacques Gelman
- The Rapidity of Sleep (1945) The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
- There, Motion Has Not Yet Ceased (1945) Richard S Zeisler Collection, New York
- There the Mouth has not Ceased Yet (1945) Collection of Richard S. Zeisler
- The Provider (1945) Private Collectio
- Hands and Gloves (1946) Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne
- Clothed in Wakefulness (1947) Collection of Mr and Mrs Isidore M. Cohen
- There Is (1947) Private Collection
- At the Risk of the Sun (1947) Nelson Gallery - Atkins Museum, Kansas City
- From One Night to Another (1947) de Young Museum, San Francisco
- First Stone (1947) Private Collection
- Who Will Answer (1948) Collection of Mr and Mrs Herbert Lust
- Fear (1949) Whitney Museum of American ArtWhitney Museum of American ArtThe Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...
, New York
1950s
- Rose of the Four Winds (1950) Wadsworth AtheneumWadsworth AtheneumThe Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States, with significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings in early American furniture and...
, Hartford - The Immense Window (1950) Private Collection
- From Pale Hands to Weary Skies (1950) Yale University Art GalleryYale University Art GalleryThe Yale University Art Gallery houses a significant and encyclopedic collection of art in several buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Although it embraces all cultures and periods, the Gallery possesses especially renowned collections of early Italian painting,...
- To look at in Winter (1950) Smith College Museum of Art
- Unlimited Sequences (1951) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
- The Invisibles / The Transparent Ones (1951) Tate ModernTate ModernTate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...
, London - The Hunted Sky (1951) Menil CollectionMenil CollectionThe Menil Collection, located in Houston refers either to a museum that houses the private art collection of founders John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, or to the collection itself...
, Houston - Time Without Change (1951) University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
- The Stars in Open-Work (1951) The Art Institute of Chicago
- Because (1951) Williams College Museum of Art
- This Morning (1951) Collection of Nesuhi Ertegun
- Through the Forest (1952)
- The Mirage of Time (1954) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- The Saltimbanques (1954) Richard L Feigen, New York
- Imaginary Numbers (1954) Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
- From Green to White (1954) Collection of Mr and Mrs Jacques Gelman
- Multiplication of the Arcs (1954) The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Books about Yves Tanguy
- Yves Tanguy and Surrealism (2001) Published by Hatje Cantz - Authors: Karin von Maur, Susan Davidson, Konrad Klapheck, Gordon Onslow Ford, Andreas Schalhorn and Beate Wolf
- An Important Private Collection of Works by Yves Tanguy (2001) Published by Christie's New York
- Yves Tanguy: The Graphic Work (1976) Published by Wolfgang Wittrock - Authors: Wolfgang Wittrock and Stanley W Hayter
- Yves Tanguy (1974) Published by Acquavella Galleries, Inc. - Authors: Nicholas M Acquavella and John Ashbery
- Yves Tanguy (1974) Published by Éditions Filipacchi - Author : Daniel Marchesseau
- Yves Tanguy (First Edition 1955, Second Edition 1977) Published by The Museum of Modern Art - Author: James Thrall Soby