Valentine Hugo (1897 – 1968) was an artist. She was born Boulogne-sur-Mer and died in Paris. 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Boulogne-sur-Mer is a city and commune in northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais département of which it is a sous-préfecture. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

Hugo studied painting in Paris, and in 1919 married Jean Hugo, great-grandson of Victor Hugo. 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Victor Hugo Victor Hugo (February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885) was a French author, the most important of the Romantic authors in the French language. ...

She collaborated with him on ballet designs including Jean Cocteau's Maries de la Tour Eiffel (1921), and in 1926 executed 24 wood engravings after maquettes by Jean Hugo for Romeo and Juliette. Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, and filmmaker. ...

She met the surrealists around 1928 and actively participated in the movement between 1930 and 1936.

The foremost illustrator of Paul Éluard's work, she first exhibited with the surrealists in the Salon des Surindependants of 1933. Paul Éluard was the nom de plume of Eugène Grindel (December 14, 1895 – November 18, 1952), a French poet. ...

Her many illustrations include,

• Comte de Lautréamont, Chants de Maldoror (1933)
• Achim d'Arnim's Contes Bizarres (1933)
• Arthur Rimbaud, Les Poetes de Sept Ans (1939)
• Paul Éluard, Les Animaux et Leurs Hommes (1937)

A retrospective exhibition of her work was held at the Centre Culturel Thibaud de Champagne, Troyes, in 1977. Comte de Lautréamont is a pseudonym for Isidore Lucien Ducasse ( Montevideo, Uruguay, April 4, 1846 - Paris, November 24, 1870), a French poet and writer. ... Photo of Arthur Rimbaud Rimbaud redirects here. ... Paul Éluard was the nom de plume of Eugène Grindel (December 14, 1895 – November 18, 1952), a French poet. ...

Other exhibitions of her work have been at: Tenerife (1935), Copenhagen (1935), New York (1937), Tokyo (1937).

External link

• Short biography (http://www.leninimports.com/valentine_hugo.html)