Georges Limbour

Georges Limbour (11 August 1900 in Courbevoie – 17 May 1970 in Chiclana de la Frontera, near Cadiz) was a French writer, poet and art critic, and a regent of the Collège de 'Pataphysique. His childhood friends included Jean Dubuffet and Raymond Queneau. Limbour began writing in his teens.

In October 1918 he went to Paris to study medicine, later switching to philosophy, obtaining his degree in 1923. 'The Lancashire Actor' (1923), 'Glass Eyes' (1924), and 'The Panorama' (1935), 'The Hand of Fatima' (1929), 'The White Dog' (1953), and three 'African Tales' (1968). An essay, 'Aeschylus, Carnival and the Civilised', published in Documents, II.2 (1930) is also available in English translation.

From 1944 on Limbour wrote innumerable essays, catalogue introductions and reviews about art, as well as books on Masson and Dubuffet. In 1943 Limbour took the writer and critic Jean Paulhan to the studio of Jean Dubuffet, whose work was then unknown. This meeting was a decisive moment in Dubuffet's career. Paulhan introduced Dubuffet to the gallery owner René Drouin, and the artist had his first public show the following year.