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The Poor Fisherman, oil on canvas by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1881; in the Louvre, Paris. Arthur Rimbaud. Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris. Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist. Joris-Karl Huysmans, detail of an oil painting by Jean-Louis Forain. Death: My Irony Surpasses all Else!, lithograph by Odilon Redon, 1889; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Moreau, Gustave: Orpheus Paul Claudel. Auguste, comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, drawing by Paterne Berrichon.
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Date 1886 - c. 1930
Significant Works Against the Grain • Axel’s Castle • A Season in Hell • Ubu roi
Related Artists Jean Moréas • Gustave Kahn • Arthur Rimbaud • Paul Gauguin • André Gide • Paul Verlaine • Stéphane Mallarmé • Fernand Khnopff • Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok • Andrey Bely • Paul Claudel • Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov • Maurice Maeterlinck • Émile Verhaeren • Charles Cros • Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov • Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov • Joris-Karl Huysmans • Alfred Jarry • Charles Van Lerberghe • Aleksey Mikhaylovich Remizov • Odilon Redon • Jules Laforgue • Auguste, comte de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam • Sophus Claussen • Béla Balázs • Pierre Puvis de Chavannes • Mario Luzi • Francis Viélé-Griffin • Gustave Moreau • Maurice Denis • George Seferis • Henri de Régnier • Ahmed Haşim • Max Elskamp • Ramón López Velarde • Léon-Paul Fargue • Tryggve Andersen • Giovanni Segantini • Georges Rodenbach • Karel van de Woestijne • João da Cruz e Sousa • Einar Benediktsson • Camilo Pessanha • Peyo Yavorov • Jan Thorn-Prikker • Paul Adam • Sigbjørn Obstfelder • Johannes Jørgensen • Paul Fort • Eugénio de Castro • Abraham Shlonsky • Édouard Dujardin

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The Poor Fisherman, oil on canvas by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1881; in the Louvre, Paris.
Arthur Rimbaud.
Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Joris-Karl Huysmans, detail of an oil painting by Jean-Louis Forain.
Death: My Irony Surpasses all Else!, lithograph by Odilon Redon, 1889; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Moreau, Gustave: Orpheus
Paul Claudel.
Auguste, comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, drawing by Paterne Berrichon.
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