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Maurice Henry

Maurice Henry (1907 - 1984) was active/lived in France, Italy.  Maurice Henry is 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 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; having a twisted arm with an extended hand in place of a head) or the nude woman stigmatized with lie s   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5350 characters.]  Artist bio

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