Arthur Cravan | |
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| Born | 22 May 1887 |
| Died | circa November 1918 (aged 31) (presumed) |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, poet, artist and boxer |
| Height | 6 ft 7 in (201 cm)[1] |
Arthur Cravan (born Fabian Avenarius Lloyd;[2] 22 May 1887 – disappeared 1918) was a Swiss writer, poet, artist and boxer. He was the second son of Otho Holland Lloyd and Hélène Clara St. Clair. His brother Otho Lloyd was a painter and photographer married to the Russian émigré artist Olga Sacharoff.[3] His father's sister, Constance Mary Lloyd, was married to Irish poet Oscar Wilde.[4] He changed his name to Cravan in 1912 in honour of his fiancée Renée Bouchet, who was born in the small village of Cravans in the department of Charente-Maritime in western France.[citation needed]
Cravan was last seen at Salina Cruz, Mexico in 1918[5] and most likely drowned in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico in November 1918.[6]
- ^ Severini, Gino, The Life of a Painter, p. 106
- ^ William S. Rubin, Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage, (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1968), 245
- ^ New York, Perls Galleries, Olga Sacharoff, Otho Loyd: Two Parisian Painters [exh. cat.], 27 February ‒ 18 March 1939, n.p.
- ^ Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia, "Arthur Cravan and American Dada," trans. Maria Jolas, in The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology, ed. Robert Motherwell (New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc., 1951), 14.
- ^ Rubin, Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage, 200
- ^ Burke, Carolyn (1996). Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 271. ISBN 9780374109646.