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Apollinaire

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French poet; precursor of surrealism (1880-1918)

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Apollinaire was arrested on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. Source: Internet

Braque and Derain were mobilized and Apollinaire joined the French artillery, while the Spaniard Juan Gris remained from the Cubist circle. Source: Internet

During 1913 he exhibited his work at the Salon des Indépendants and Salon d'Automne, his work was noticed by Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire and several others. Source: Internet

Of Duchamp's pieces in the show, critic Guillaume Apollinaire —who was to become a friend—criticized what he called "Duchamp's very ugly nudes". Source: Internet

"If it had not been for Apollinaire in uniform," wrote Cocteau, "with his skull shaved, the scar on his temple and the bandage around his head, women would have gouged our eyes out with hairpins." Source: Internet

Apollinaire was crucified in the newspaper headlines and accused of also stealing the Mona Lisa. Source: Internet

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