French artist and writer, name widely known in poetry, fiction, film, ballet, painting, and opera.
Works reflect the influence of surrealism, psychoanalysis, cubism, Catholic Religion; occasionally they were opium influenced.
Was a promoter of avant-garde styles and fashions.
Friends included such prominent figures
as Pablo Picasso, the composer Erik Satie, the writer Marcel Proust, and the Russian director Serge Diaghilev.
