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Andre Verdet

Andre Verdet (1913 - 2004) was active/lived in France.  Andre Verdet is known for Painting, sculpture and stained glass.

André Verdet was born in 1913 and was raised by his aunt and uncle at Saint Paul, France. He did his military service in the colonial troops.

His first book, Histoires originales du pays de Saint Paul, was published in 1939 and was followed by numerous collections of poems.

In 1941 he met Jacques Prévert with whom he would publish four books of poetry. During the Résistance, Verdet was at the head of a group involved in sabotage and counter-espionage for the "Combat" movement. He was arrested and deported to Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

Repatriated in 1945, upon his return to France he published his "Anthology of Poems from Buchenwald".  In 1949 he went back to Saint Paul where he settled definitively and where he became the friend and confident of many painters, among which were Matisse, Chagall, Braque, Picasso, Hartung, Léger and Arman.

Fine art books and a great many essays on painting would come out of these encounters.    ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1805 characters.]  Artist bio

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