Valentine Hugo
Le Crapaud de Maldoror
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
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Valentine Hugo
(1887 - 1968)
Le Crapaud de Maldoror
signed with the artist’s monogram (lower left); signed Valentine Hugo and dated 1932 (lower right of the artist’s mat); signed again Valentine Hugo, dated Décembre 1932 and inscribed “Tu dois être puissant car tu as une figure plus qu’humaine, triste comme l’univers belle comme le suicide” Paris (on the verso of the artist’s mat)
image: 18 ½ by 12 in. 47 by 30.5 cm.
artist’s mat: 24 ⅛ by 17 ¾ in. 61.3 by 45 cm.
Executed in 1932.
Daniel Fillipacchi, Paris
Acquired from the above by 1978 by the present owner
Venice, XLII Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte La Biennale di Venezia, 1986, p. 86 (titled Viso rana and dated 1931)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. I, no. 103, p.164; p. 165, illustrated in color (dated 1936)
Surréalisme au service de la révolution, no. 5, 1933, illustrated (titled Lautréamont)
Europe: revue mensuelle, nos. 475-76, 1968, p. 48; p. 49, illustrated
Jacques Baron, Anthologie plastique du surréalisme, Paris, 1980, p. 138, illustrated in color (dated 1936)
Anne de Margerie, Valentine Hugo, 1887-1968, Paris, 1983
Béatrice Seguin, ed., and Jean-Pierre Cauvin, Valentine Hugo, Arles, 2002, p. 141, illustrated (titled Lautréamont, Maldoror et le crapaud)
Exh. Cat., Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque des Annonciades, Valentine Hugo, Le Carnaval des Ombres, 2018, fig. 20, p. 24, illustrated in color; p. 132 (dated 1936)
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