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A French citizen who worked in both the French and Catalan languages, he built a career as a poet, prose writer, essayist, and critic, while simultaneously practicing as a painter, watercolorist, pastellist, lithographer, illustrator, and draftsperson. He also worked as a translator, extending his reach across linguistic and formal boundaries throughout his professional life.\n\nJacob became associated with the cubism movement, situating his output within one of the most consequential artistic currents of early twentieth-century France. His work as a critic placed him in a position to engage analytically with the visual and literary culture around him, while his practice as an illustrator and lithographer allowed him to move fluidly between word and image. The Concours général, an award he received, marked an early recognition of his abilities, and he was later named a Knight of the Legion of Honour, one of France's most formal acknowledgments of achievement.\n\nJacob died on March 5, 1944, at Drancy, the internment camp northeast of Paris from which tens of thousands were deported during the German occupation. He was sixty-seven years old. 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