Marcel Jean (1900 in

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- 4 December 1993 in

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, France) was a French painter, writer, and sculptor who joined the

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movement in 1933. He is perhaps best known for his trompe l'oeil painting ''Armoire Surrealiste'' now in the permanent collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. His work is also in the

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and that of

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in New York City. He authored two books on the history of Surrealism, ''Surrealism Histoire de la Peinture Surréaliste'' and ''L’Autobiographie du Surréalisme''.

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20th-century French painters French sculptors Surrealism 1900 births 1993 deaths {{France-artist-stub