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    Jean Cassou (9 July 1897 – 15 January 1986) was a French writer, art critic, poet, member of the French Resistance during World War II and the first Director...
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    was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence".: 110 p.  He was an...
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    Dorival 1945 – 1965 : Jean Cassou 1941 – 1944 : Pierre Ladoué 1940 : Jean Cassou Henri Matisse, Auguste Pellerin II, 1916–17 Jean Metzinger, Etude pour...
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  • Deux sonnets de Jean Cassou is a song cycle for baritone and piano written by the French composer Henri Dutilleux in 1954. He later transcribed or allowed...
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  • her colleague Jean Cassou "I feel I will go mad, literally, if I don't do something!". So, with Boris Vildé, Anatole Lewitsky, Jean Cassou and Yvonne Oddon...
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    it first began in the summer of 1940 was based upon what the writer Jean Cassou called refus absurde ("absurd refusal") of refusing to accept that the...
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  • percussion (1985/1991/2010) Regards sur l'Infini and Deux sonnets de Jean Cassou for bassoon and piano (1943/2011 and 1954/2011 – transcription of the...
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  • antiwar painting by Picasso. Among the painting's admirers were art critic Jean Cassou and poet José Bergamín, both of whom praised the painting as quintessentially...
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    expressionism in the early 20th century. French art critic and historian Jean Cassou posited three distinct periods in Rops's artistic life: romantic 1855–1860;...
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    war ended, his remains were transferred in 1949 by his artist friends Jean Cassou and René Iché (who sculpted the tomb of the poet) to the cemetery at...
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