Georges Hugnet
- Reference:GB 2610 GMA A66
- Dates of Creation:c.1945
- Physical Description:8 items
Scope and Content
Eight collages by Georges Hugnet; framed; all have as subject 'Women among ruins' (8 items).
Administrative / Biographical History
Poet, critic and book-lover Georges Hugnet spent his childhood in Argentina, moving to France in 1913. He was involved in the surrealist movement from 1933 to 1938, taking part in activities such as poetry, making collages and creating book covers for the Surrealists. Hugnet used the automatic technique of decalcomania, both on the endpapers of books and as an artistic practice in its own right. Hugnet’s beautifully-bound books were considered as equal in value to objects created by the surrealist group and some were exhibited at the Exhibition of Surrealist Objects in Paris in 1936. Hugnet retreated from surrealist circles in 1938, after a violent quarrel with André Breton. Described by Virgil Thomson as 'small, truculent and sentimental', he was one of the earliest historians of Dada, publishing a book of essays on the movement in 1957. He died in 1974.
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Custodial History
Purchased 1999
Related Material
The SNGMA Collection holds work by Hugnet