Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy was
born in Paris in 1900. He started in art by sketching café scenes in the 1920s
and gravitated into painting. He joined the Surrealist movement in 1925. He
married his first wife in 1927. After that marriage failed, he would marry
painter, Kay Sage in 1940. When he died in 1955, his body was cremated and
preserved until Sage died in 1963 after which his ashes were mingled with hers
and scattered over a beach in Brittany.
His Imagery of Chess
contribution is an example of "found objects" - the pieces cut into
various lengths and angles from a single broom handle and lacquered.
Tanguy was not a practicing sculptor.
