25 October 2014

Brassaï: Cimetière du Montparnasse #22

'BRASSAÏ
1899 – 1984
GILBERTE HALASZ BRASSAÏ
NÉE BOYER
1920 – 2005'

'Brassaï' is a pseudonym for Gyula Halász, an Austro-Hungarian-born naturalised French artist, sculptor and writer who was friendly with Henry Miller, Léon-Paul Fargue and Jacques Prévert. One of his books is Graffiti (1960), one of the first books to make the suggestion that grafitti is a (naive) form of art.

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