Claude Pélieu (1934-2002) is a French
collage
artist and
poet.
First influenced by
Surrealism
in his early days, he then moved to the United States in the early 1960s
where he became friends with the writers of the
Beat
Generation (
William Burroughs,
Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman...), who inspired him and whom he soon
translated with the help of his lover Mary Beach. From the 1980s onwards,
and after having published over twenty books, he devoted himself almost
exclusively to the practice of collage art.
