Who is Raoul Ubac?

Raoul Ubac (31 August 1910, Cologne – 24 March 1985, Dieudonne, Oise) was a French painter, sculptor, photographer and engraver.

He had various and irregular artistic training and travelled in Europe in the middle of 1928 and 1934. He worked mostly on photography together with 1934 and 1942, embraced Surrealism in Paris and took photos for the magazine Minotaure. In 1937, he made Tete du Mannequin, a photograph taken of a mannequin (made by André Masson) consisting of unexceptional objects. Another of his works put in the photograph ‘La Conciliabule’. He also created a color lithograph Three Seated Nudes, signed humiliate right margin (edition of 200, 21″ x 27 1/2″).

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Ubac’s mother’s relations ran a tannery and his daddy was a magistrate. In his prematurely years he traveled through some parts of Europe on foot. He first came to Paris in 1928. He was already enrolled at the Sorbonne for a degree in learned studies following he contracted to switch to the Art Academy of Montparnasse. It was there that he moved in the midst of the Surrealists.

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