Acrylic on canvas
Signature on the back

50 x 70 x 2 cm.

18 x 24 x 0.78 inch.

Unique 

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Celebrities of Occitanie Collection 

Born in Tarbes. Started as a painter. Then Balzac, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Wilde, Pound, Eliot and James all said he shaped them.

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Théophile Gautier championed Romanticism and spent the rest of his career being impossible to categorize - Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence, Modernism all claim him. He got there before any of them had a name.

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The ones who came after always knew where to look.