biography
pronunciation:
[ayleeõ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1904–87)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Couterne, Orne, NW France. He studied architecture and engineering in Lille and went to Paris. Influenced by Cubism, in 1930–8 he was a leading French abstract painter, but after World War 2 returned to naturalism in his paintings. His works include À Rebours (1947, Musée nationale d'art moderne, Paris). |
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