biography
pronunciation:
[ruhdõ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1840–1916)
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| biography:
| Artist, born in Bordeaux, SW France. He is usually regarded as a pioneer Surrealist, because of his use of dream images in his work. He made many charcoal drawings and lithographs, but after 1900 painted, especially in pastel, pictures of flowers and portraits in intense colour. |
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