Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement. In 1916, he chose the name Paul Éluard, a matronymic borrowed from his maternal grandmother. From Wikipedia
London exhibitions will display 250 Surrealist, postwar works led by Magritte’s La Statue volante ahead of a mid-September sale estimated at £60 million.
