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1907 Cambrai, France - 1984 Milan, Italy. Known for: Surrealist painting and mixed media, female images, paper mache.
Maurice Henry. Born 1909 in Cambrai, France; died 1984 in Milan. On the cover of his Points de Repère in 1968, Henry described how he clashed with his journalist father, who wanted him to become an... Read full biography
Maurice Henry. Born 1909 in Cambrai, France; died 1984 in Milan. On the cover of his Points de Repère in 1968, Henry described how he clashed with his journalist father, who wanted him to become an engineer or a lawyer. He wrote that when he was six he drew his first caricatures*; when he was nine... Read full biography
Maurice Henry. Born 1909 in Cambrai, France; died 1984 in Milan. On the cover of his Points de Repère in 1968, Henry described how he clashed with his journalist father, who wanted him to become an engineer or a lawyer. He wrote that when he was six he drew his first caricatures*; when he was nine he was a sleepwalker; when he was twelve he began to draw macabre cartoons; and when he was sixteen he decided to become a painter. Henry went to Paris in 1927, with his schoolmate Arthur Harfaux, a... Read full biography
Maurice Henry. Born 1909 in Cambrai, France; died 1984 in Milan. On the cover of his Points de Repère in 1968, Henry described how he clashed with his journalist father, who wanted him to become an engineer or a lawyer. He wrote that when he was six he drew his first caricatures*; when he was nine he was a sleepwalker; when he was twelve he began to draw macabre cartoons; and when he was sixteen he decided to become a painter. Henry went to Paris in 1927, with his schoolmate Arthur Harfaux, a photographer, joining Rene Daumal and Roger Gilbert-Lecomte to found the review Le Grand Jeu. Their first issue featured his manifesto Nécessité de la révolte, which ends with this challenge: "I offer my victims in holocaust to my liberty" His... Read full biography
Maurice Henry. Born 1909 in Cambrai, France; died 1984 in Milan. On the cover of his Points de Repère in 1968, Henry described how he clashed with his journalist father, who wanted him to become an engineer or a lawyer. He wrote that when he was six he drew his first caricatures*; when he was nine he was a sleepwalker; when he was twelve he began to draw macabre cartoons; and when he was sixteen he decided to become a painter. Henry went to Paris in 1927, with his schoolmate Arthur Harfaux, a photographer, joining Rene Daumal and Roger Gilbert-Lecomte to found the review Le Grand Jeu. Their first issue featured his manifesto Nécessité de la révolte, which ends with this challenge: "I offer my victims in holocaust to my liberty" His "victims"—figures in his drawings—were the characters Sa Main est morte (his hand is dead; hav... Read full biography
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Mauritius Henry, Henry Maurice
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Maurice Henry
Born 1909 in Cambrai, France; died 1984 in Milan.
On the cover of his Points de Repère in 1968, Henry described how he clashed with his journalist father, who wanted him to become an engineer or a lawyer. He wrote that when he was six he drew his first caricatures*; when he was nine he was a sleepwalker; when he was twelve he began to draw macabre cartoons; and when he was sixteen he decided to become a painter.
Henry went to Paris in 1927, with his schoolmate Arthur Harfaux, a photographer, joining Rene Daumal and Roger Gilbert-Lecomte to found the review Le Grand Jeu. Their first issue featured his manifesto Nécessité de la révolte, which ends with this challen...But wait, there's more...
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