Art For this Surrealist art couple, love was an alien landscape. Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy created otherworldly paintings that capture both the anxieties and harmonies of partnership.

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Through courtship, 15 years of marriage, death and beyond, painters Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy have been regarded as the premier surrealist couple whose menacing dreamscapes raise fascinating ...

Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage, Surrealist painters who married in 1940. 2022 Estate of Kay Sage/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York “I Have No Shadow” (1940) by Kay Sage.

Art: Serene Surrealist. 3 minute read. ... In the ’20s she married and divorced an Italian prince, later learned with Poet Andre Breton and Painter Yves Tanguy to ride the surrealist tide.

She succeeded in putting on shows for her protege Yves Tanguy and Abstractionist Jean Helion before World War ... flat-colored canvases an agreeable change from run-of-the-maelstrom surrealist art.

Yves Tanguy, “Mama, Papa Is Wounded!” (1927) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (photograph by Art is a Word via Flickr) Most of his paintings feature groups of bone-like organic shapes ...