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Paul Ranson was a French painter who arrived in Paris in 1888 and quickly became a founding member of Les Nabis, the influential group that helped bridge Impressionism and modern art. Born in Limoges in 1861, he studied at the Académie Julian under Tony Robert-Fleury and established himself at the centre of the Parisian avant-garde, developing a distinctive visual language shaped by Japanese woodblock prints—a fascination so pronounced his peers called him "the Nabi more Japanese than the Japanese." Beyond painting, he worked as a ceramicist, printmaker, and writer, while his interests in Symb…