Artist

Alfred Jarry

Portrait of Alfred Jarry

French, 1873–1907

Alfred Jarry was a French Realism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art.

Alfred Jarry was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealist, and Futurist movements of the 1920s and 1930s and later the theatre of the absurd in the 1950s and 1960s. He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics.

Collections represented

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