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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yves Tanguy has received more than 428,596 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 38 in 2019). Yves Tanguy is the 427th most popular painter (down from 342nd in 2019), the 1,328th most popular biography from France (down from 1,131st in 2019) and the 91st most popular French Painter.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Yves Tanguys by language

Over the past year Yves Tanguy has had the most page views in the with 44,826 views, followed by French (11,157), and Spanish (6,993). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (57.55%), Esperanto (49.82%), and Slovak (41.90%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Yves Tanguy ranks 427 out of 2,023. Before him are Marianne von Werefkin, Adam Elsheimer, Theophanes the Greek, Enrique Simonet, Lovis Corinth, and Anna Maria van Schurman. After him are Mikhail Vrubel, Zinaida Serebriakova, Maud Lewis, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Suzuki Harunobu, and Piero Manzoni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Yves Tanguy ranks 53. Before him are Edith Frank, Maria of Yugoslavia, Zelda Fitzgerald, Maurice Thorez, Jean Negulesco, and Nathalie Sarraute. After him are Pridi Banomyong, Evald Aav, Werner Haase, Mária Telkes, Rudolf Diels, and Helen Hayes. Among people deceased in 1955, Yves Tanguy ranks 39. Before him are Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Princess Clémentine of Belgium, Cordell Hull, Alexander Wienerberger, John Mott, and Alexandros Papagos. After him are Theda Bara, Henri Delaunay, Emmett Till, Olga Khokhlova, Otto Braun, and Nicolas de Staël.

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In France

Among people born in France, Yves Tanguy ranks 1,328 out of 6,770. Before him are Maine de Biran (1766), Carausius (300), Constance of Arles (974), Louis, Count of Vendôme (1376), Kylian Mbappé (1998), and Joachim du Bellay (1522). After him are William Farel (1489), Jean Gaston Darboux (1842), Robert IV of Sablé (1150), Ansegisel (602), John III of Navarre (1477), and Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (1187).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Yves Tanguy ranks 91. Before him are François Clouet (1510), Jules Chéret (1836), André Masson (1896), Eva Gonzalès (1849), Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827), and Bernard Buffet (1928). After him are Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754), Françoise Gilot (1921), Louise Moillon (1610), Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774), Ernest Meissonier (1815), and James Tissot (1836).

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