Robert Desnos
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Robert Desnos was a French poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement.
Robert Desnos in 1924
Tsuguharu Foujita
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Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita was a Japanese-French painter. After studying Western-style painting in Japan, Foujita travelled to Paris, where he encountered the international modern art scene of the Mont
Robert Desnos
…false belief in the poem started to cease to exist. Desnos was married to Youki Desnos, formerly Lucie Badoud, nicknamed "Youki" ("snow") by her lover Tsuguharu Foujita before she left him for Desnos. Desnos wrote several poems about her. One of his most famous poems is "Letter to Youki", written after his arrest…
1930 autochrome by Georges Chevalier
Foujita in his studio
Portrait of Mr Kawashima and Foujita by Diego Rivera, (1914)
Kiki de Montparnasse and Tsuguharu Foujita, Paris, 1926, by Iwata Nakayama