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Yves Tanguy made his initial foray into the art world in the early 1920s, sharing a house with a Bohemian group of friends at the rue du Château, in the working-class neighborhood behind the Montparnasse railway station. Tanguy was fascinated by the Parisian demi-monde and began documenting the scenes he encountered at the vaudeville theatres, jazz clubs, cafés and nightclubs in spirited watercolors. His style combined the influences of Cubism and the satirical and socially critical elements of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement. Tanguy's work first appeared in a group show held at the Salon de l'Araignée in 1925. Soon after he abandoned this style, begin painting in oil and joined the Surrealist movement.