Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

Tanguy had a habit of being completely absorbed by the current painting he was working on. With the outbreak of World War II Sage moved back to her native New York and Tanguy judged unfit for military service followed her. At the end of his military service in 1922 he returned to Paris where he worked various odd jobs.

Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5 1900 – January 15 1955) known as Yves Tanguy was a French surrealist painter.