Word: bloy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experimenting with a vengeance, trapping lumpish whores, leering judges and miserable clowns in slashes and fat smears of hot dark paint. Outrage seemed his inspiration and Daumier his master. He sold practically nothing until he was past 40; even his friends found him unbearably perverse. Writer Léon Bloy, who had converted Rouault to Catholicism, put it bluntly: "You have a hideousness in your head...