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The Bite of Bread: man bent forward, hands in pockets by Fernand Pelez

The Bite of Bread: man bent forward, hands in pockets

Fernand Pelez · 1904

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Artist
Fernand Pelez
Date
1904
Location
Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris
ART MOVEMENTS
Naturalism
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Fernand Pelez

1848–1913 · France

French painter who depicted society's outcasts with unflinching realism, then became a recluse after 1896.

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