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A French Surrealist artist, Pierre Roy began painting in 1905 and exhibited his work several times at the Salon des indépendants de Paris from 1907 to 1914. Noticed by Apollinaire in 1913, he subsequently became close to the Surrealist artists, exhibiting alongside Giorgio de Chirico and Max Ernst, among others, in the 1920s. In the words of Aragon, he is "the greatest unknown of Surrealism".