Laurence Vail

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Laurence Vail (born January 28, 1891 in Paris , † April 16, 1968 in Cannes ) was a French poet , sculptor and painter of Dadaism . At the beginning of the 20th century it was known as the " roi de Montparnasse " or " roi de la Bohème ".

Life

Laurence Vail was the son of the painter Eugène Lawrence Vail (1857-1934) and a French mother. He studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts . Within a very short time, Laurence Vail surrounded himself with the city's most famous intellectuals and artists, including Constantin Brâncuși , James Joyce , Man Ray , Ezra Pound , Ernest Hemingway , Samuel Beckett , Natalie Clifford Barney , Romaine Brooks , Djuna Barnes , Gertrude Stein and Marcel Duchamp . He later fought in the Spanish Civil War , took part in communist activities and in the Second World War in the French resistance movement, the Résistance .

Laurence Vail was married twice. His first marriage was since 1922 to the patron and founder of a museum institution, Marguerite Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979). The mutual relationship resulted in two children, Michael Sindbad and Pegeen . After eight years of marriage, the two divorced and he married the writer and journalist Kay Boyle (1902-1992), with whom he had lived since 1929. The marriage produced three daughters.

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SURNAME Vail, Laurence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet, sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1968
Place of death Cannes