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Yves Laloy (1920-1999) was born into a family of architects from Rennes who worked for several generations on the town’s important public buildings and on seaside architecture along the Côte d’Émeraude of Brittany’s northern coast, especially in the town of Cancale. An architect himself, he began painting in the early 1950s and was active on the fringes of the Surrealist movement. The painter executed his major works in the 1950s and ‘60s. It was André Breton who helped to introduce this painter to the public and who included him among the Surrealists.