ARTIST

Georges Hugnet

1906–1974 · France

French artist who created collage novels and wrote firsthand accounts of Surrealism's most iconic exhibitions.

ABOUT

Georges Hugnet (11 July 1906 – 26 June 1974) was a French graphic artist. He was also active as a poet, writer, art historian, bookbinding designer, critic and film director. Hugnet was a figure in the Dada movement and Surrealism. He was the author of the collage novel Le septième face du dé (1936). Hugnet wrote about the "Exposition surrealiste internationale", saying "Les artistes surrealists ... se sensetaient tous l'ame de Pygmalion ... On put voir les heureux posseurs…

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NOTABLE WORKS
Angkor-Thom 1930 · Cleveland Museum of Art My Wanderings Lead Me, from Eight Days at Trébaumec 1931 · Cleveland Museum of Art Beach 1933 · Cleveland Museum of Art Young Bride 1933 · Cleveland Museum of Art Two Women 1934 · Cleveland Museum of Art En Route, One Visits the Castle, from Eight Days at Trébaumec 1934 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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