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Denis Prieur was born in Moret-sur-Loing, France,
on 8 May 1957. 

At the age of sixteen, he entered the Ecole nationale supérieure des  Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied from 1973 to 1977 under the painters  Pierre Carron and  Pierre Faure. In 1978, he was awarded a scholarship from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to continue his studies in Amsterdam.

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