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Driskell, David Clyde  

American, 20th century, male.

Born 7 June 1931, in Eatonton (Georgia).

Painter, draughtsman (including ink), collage artist, print artist, sculptor, collector, art historian. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, figure compositions, scenes with figures, landscapes. Designs for stained glass.

David C. Driskell earned a BFA at Howard University in ...

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Duchein, Paul  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 20 February 1930, in Rabastens.

Sculptor of assemblages, collage artist, mixed media.

Paul Duchein earned his living as a pharmacist and dispensing chemist in Montauban. An avid collector of populist art, African masks and contemporary works, his own output bears all the hallmarks of Surrealism. Taking his cue from André Breton's dictum extolling the artistic relevance of 'the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life', Duchein began in the 1970s to collect objects - ...

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Penrose, Sir Roland  

Louisa Buck

(b London, Oct 14, 1900; d Chiddingly, E. Sussex, April 23, 1984).

English patron, poet, painter, sculptor and collagist. After completing his BA at Queens’ College, Cambridge, in 1922, he worked as a painter in France from 1922 to 1935 and through Max Ernst became closely involved with the Surrealist group in Paris. On his return to England, he established the British Surrealist Group and in 1936 organized the first International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries in London, which provided Britain’s first full-scale exposure to the movement. He took part in most of the group’s activities and was secretary and treasurer of its showcase, the London Gallery, as well as co-editor of its publication, the London Gallery Bulletin.

Penrose began collecting art in the early 1930s and in 1938 bought Paul Eluard’s collection of Surrealist, African and other art. This included 40 major works by Max Ernst, including the Elephant Celebes (1921; London, Tate), several paintings by Giorgio De Chirico, most notably the ...

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Tabanou, Michel  

French, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 11 June 1953.

Painter, collage artist.

Michel Tabanou is primarily a collector, a painter whose work is based on accumulation, amassing a huge technical and physical repertory of material to create clever and unusual collages based on disparate elements such as decals, print-outs and original graphics. His images are abstract but also contrive to suggest a mixture of masts and rigging set in the context of an abandoned harbour or a deserted breaker's yard. This initial image is soon succeeded by another recurrent theme; that of two armies locked in battle. It is left to the viewer to interpret each canvas, reading, the images as one might turn the pages of a book....