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Henri Michaux
Henri Michaux was a Belgian-born French experimental poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York had shows of his work in 1978. His autobiographical texts that chronicle his psychedelic experiments with LSD and mescaline include Miserable Miracle and The M…
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culture · Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter · painter · poet · writer · illustrator · photographer · draftsperson · also Henri Michaux, Michaux
Born 24 May 1899 · Died 19 October 1984 · Q160780
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2026· 2 entries
Artnet news: Henri Michaux
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2025· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: The Private Calligraphy of Henri Michaux
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2018· 1 entry
The Quietus: A Wish For Invisibility: The Chance And Ephemera Of Henri Michaux
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2013· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Henri Michaux’s Disintegrating Selves
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2007· 1 entry
Fabula: Henri Michaux, Experimentation with Signs
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1984· 1 entry
Died 1984-10-19.
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1965· 2 entries
Awarded Grand prix national des Lettres (1965).
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Won the grand prix national des Lettres, which he refused to accept, as he did every honor he was accorded in his life
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1955· 1 entry
Became a citizen of France, and he lived the rest of his life there
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1930· 1 entry
And 1931, Michaux visited Japan, China and India
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1899· 1 entry
Born 1899-05-24.
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