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Yves Tanguy

1900 - 1955

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Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 - January 15, 1955), known as just Yves Tanguy (; French: [iv tɑ̃ɡi]), was a French Surrealist painter. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yves Tanguy is the 429th most popular painter (down from 427th in 2019), the 1,329th most popular biography from France (down from 1,328th in 2019) and the 88th most popular French Painter.

Yves Tanguy was a French painter who is most famous for his surrealist paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Yves Tanguy ranks 429 out of 2,023. Before him are Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Eva Gonzalès, Sidney Nolan, Pieter Lastman, André Masson, and Carlo Levi. After him are John Bauer, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Godfrey Kneller, Gino Severini, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, and James Tissot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Yves Tanguy ranks 62. Before him are Raphael Lemkin, Mária Telkes, Charley Paddock, Maurice Thorez, W. Edwards Deming, and Herberts Cukurs. After him are Aaron Copland, Kiyoo Kanda, Katina Paxinou, Werner Haase, Mahavatar Babaji, and Nathalie Sarraute. Among people deceased in 1955, Yves Tanguy ranks 38. Before him are Major Ritchie, Oswald Avery, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Cordell Hull, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, and Alexandros Papagos. After him are Garegin Nzhdeh, Archie Hahn, Princess Clémentine of Belgium, Eugène Joseph Delporte, Alexander Wienerberger, and Otto Braun.

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In France

Among people born in France, Yves Tanguy ranks 1,329 out of 6,770. Before him are Vincent of Beauvais (1190), Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (1346), Carausius (300), Marie Angélique de Scorailles (1661), Gérard Genette (1930), and Humbert of Silva Candida (1000). After him are Comtessa de Dia (1175), Joan of England, Queen of Sicily (1165), Jean Bart (1650), René II, Duke of Lorraine (1451), François Fillon (1954), and Jean de Joinville (1224).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Yves Tanguy ranks 88. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827), Armand Guillaumin (1841), Albert Marquet (1875), Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767), Eva Gonzalès (1849), and André Masson (1896). After him are James Tissot (1836), Marie Laurencin (1883), Hubert Robert (1733), François-Édouard Picot (1786), Jules Chéret (1836), and Louis-Michel van Loo (1707).

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