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  |  | LEROY Eugene (1910-2000) "Je voudrais toucher la peinture comme la peinture vous touche. La "toucher", je le dis comme on aime une femme." 
    
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    |  |  | Eugene LEROY, a few dates |  |  
 
	
    | 1910 | born on August 8th 1910 in Tourcoing |  
    | 1931 | studies at the Art schools of Lille and Paris |  
    | 1954 | exhibits his works in Paris with Sam Francis, Poliakoff and Marcel Pouget first participation to the May exhibition in Paris in 1956
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    | 1964 | begins working print |  
    | 1996 | receives the National Price for painting |  
    | 2000 | died on May 10th in Wasquehal (North France) |  |