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Tristan Tzara

Header: Tristan Tzara
Also known as: Tzara, Tristan
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; author/poet; French; Romanian; Male
Life dates: 1896-1963
Biography: Avant-garde poet, playwright, critic and artist. Born Rosenstock, Samuel (Samy) in Romania. Lived and worked in Paris. One of the founders and leading figures of the Dada movement with Marcel Janco, Hans Arp, Richard Huelsenbeck and Hugo Ball; author of the Dada Manifesto in 1918. Later involved in Surrealism. A leading collector and promoter of African art. Part oh his collection sold Sotheby's London, 8 July 1969.