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ARMAND SIMON

Armand Simon

Artist born in Pâturages. In 1923 he discovered the ‘Chants de Maldoror’, a text that fascinated him and to which he devoted thousands of drawings. A member of the ‘groupe surréaliste en Hainaut’ since its foundation in 1939, he then took part, with Chavée, Dumont and Lefrancq, in No. 1 of ‘L'Invention collective’ and then in the Mons group ‘Haute nuit’, before moving on to revolutionary Surrealism. He illustrated texts by Monique Watteau and Marcel Brion, as well as Achille Chavée's ‘Sept Poèmes de haute négligence’. Died in Frameries in 1981.