Word: tanguy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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desert furniture . . . That is the house of Yves Tanguy...
Thus the high priest of surrealism, French Poet Andre Breton, once tried to describe the atmosphere of some of the strangest paintings ever created. Last week the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hart ford, Conn, was staging a retrospective show of paintings by Yves Tanguy and his wife, Kay Sage...
...Same Old Desert. Famed Surreal ist Painter Tanguy, 54, does not look like a medium?more like a country gentleman. Born in Paris at the turn of the century, Tanguy came to the U.S. in 1939, married New York-born Painter Sage, became an American citizen. Their solidly luxurious country house in Woodbury, Conn, is completely unlike the artistic "house"' of Breton's poem. There are a stone terrace built by Tanguy (a do-ityourself fan), a pond with decoy ducks, and a rowboat for "harvesting the bull-rushes." Artist Tanguy works in a made-over barn. As he describes...
...Gogh's sitter in this portrait is a kindly Breton named Père Tanguy, who kept a small art-supply shop in Paris where the avant-garde foregathered. Van Gogh posed him with the head-on simplicity of a snapshot and surrounded him with the airy colors of Japanese prints. The background makes a sprightly contrast with the solid little sitter and the potato tones of his folded hands. Says British Art Expert Helmut Ruhemann: Van Gogh is one of the two or three artists of all time who has taken the trouble of inventing a new color...
...young married couples, some from as far as 50 miles away, had come to browse around, gone home with 61 first-rate works of art tucked under their arms. Chicago's fedora prices: from $1.50 for a small drawing to $50 for a large work by Yves Tanguy...