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Valentine HUGO
Des Mains Voilées de Maladresse [Veiled Clumsy Hands], 1939
Graphite pencil on tracing paper
Unframed: 18 1/8 x 12 in | 46 x 30.5 cm
Framed: 24 1/8 x 18 1/4 in | 61.2 x 46.3 cm
Framed: 24 1/8 x 18 1/4 in | 61.2 x 46.3 cm
Original drawing that was created for the illustration of a poem of Paul Éluard in 'Médieuses' first published in 1939, then published again in 1944 by Gallimard.
Original drawing that was created for the illustration of a poem of Paul Éluard in 'Médieuses' first published in 1939, then published again in 1944 by Gallimard.
Provenance
Pierre Spivakoff Collection
Artcurial, Paris, February 2006, lot 67
Private Collection, Switzerland
Piguet Hôtel des Ventes, Geneva, June 2025, lot 2892
Acquired directly from the above
Literature
According to the Artcurial auction catalogue, the work is reproduced in Valentine Hugo 1887-1968, Anne de Margerie, 1983, Paris, p. 88Join our mailing list
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