| Valentine Hugo Search Site Recommended Reading: Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement French painter and illustrator. Collaborated withhim on designs for the ballet including Jean Cocteau's Maries de laTour Eiffel (1921); in 1926 executed twenty-four wood engravings after maquettes by Jean Hugo for Romeo and Juliette. Metthe Surrealists around 1928 and actively participated in themovement between 1930 and 1936. The foremost illustrator of Paul Eluard's work, she first exhibited with the Surrealists in theSalon des Surindependants of 1933. Her many illustrationsinclude: Lautreamont, Chants de Maldoror (1933); Achim d'Arnim's Contes Bizarres (1933); Rimbaud, Les Poetes de SeptAns (1939); Eluard, Les Animaux et Leurs Hommes (1937). Aretrospective exhibition of her work was held at the CentreCulturel Thibaud de Champagne, Troyes, in 1977. She was a wonderful, incisive artist who deserves to better well-know today than she is. Forget the surname; just think of the body of work... More info: Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement Leather, wood. Present location unknown. Photograph reproduced in Le Surrealisme au Service de la Revolution, no. 3, December 1931. Source: Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement Oil on canvas. Present location unknown. Photograph reproduced in Source: Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement Source: Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement Valentine Hugo shifted her allegiance to the Surrealist group around 1929. Briefly linked romantically with Eluard and Breton, she continued to illustrate Eluard's work until his death. Married to Jean Hugo until 1929, she was the first woman to enter the Surrealist orbit with a professional reputation as an artist already established. She was a major visual interpreter of Surrealist texts. Hugo dedicated her collage of members of the Surrealist group to Jacqueline Lamba Breton and in an interview published later in her life she recalled the support and encouragement provided by her friendships with Eluard, Breton, and other Surrealists. Here's a little quiz. Can you name all the Surrealists in the collage? I'll do the easy ones: see if you can get any of the others. Winners get nothing but their first name mentioned here. E-mail here. There's Breton _three times), Eluard, Tzara, Ernst, Dali, Bunuel ... can you get any of the others? Thanks to Cyril: It seems that Valentine Hugo took the pictures from this catalogue : Livres et Publications Surréalistes :andrebreton.fr/fr/item/?GCOI=56600100854980. So the full list is : René Crevel, Salvador Dali, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Benjamin Péret, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Unik, Luis Bunuel, André Breton and René Char. Present location unknown. Formerly collection of Jean Petithory, Paris. Source: Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement Engraving. 7 x 10 1/4. Source: Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement Letter transcibed by Valentine Hugo. Date unknown. Source: Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement Source: Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement Collection Jean Petithory, Paris Source: Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement Top of Page |
Studied painting in Paris; in 1919 married Jean Hugo, great-grandson of Victor Hugo.
