Yves Tanguy’s ambition to become an artist developed ... from Dusseldorf to Tel Aviv accidentally left an undated and untitled work, packed in a cardboard box, at the airport check-in counter.

Yves Tanguy: Sailor Turned Avant-Garde Artist Yves Tanguy was one of the most important and influential Surrealist painters who had no aspiration of becoming a painter at all—at least, at first.