Georges Hugnet (1904 - 1974) Original Collage Signed And Dated 1961

Georges Hugnet (1904 - 1974) Original collage signed and dated 1961 Dimensions outside the frame: 28 x 26 centimeters Biography: Critic, graphic artist, occasional filmmaker with a short film La Perle (1929), but above all poet, Georges Hugnet was passionate about the study of Dada and attracted the attention of André Breton. He joined the surrealist movement in 1932 and participated very actively in the movement until 1938. He wrote in the magazine Minotaure, published Petite anthologie poétique du Surréalisme with Jeanne Bucher and made collages nourished by a sexual symbol. In 1936, he wrote La Septième face du dé, a collection of twenty poem-cutouts published by Jeanne Bucher, in which he played with cut-out images, proving that the scissor stroke is as much the result of chance as the dice cone. Having become one of the leaders of the innovation of collagism, he continued throughout his life this game of collages and cutouts in which his unconscious is reflected. In 1938, he directed the literary review L'Usage de la parole in which Max Ernst, Joan Miro and Man Ray participated through illustrations and published Les Œillades ciselées en branche with illustrations by Hans Bellmer. In addition to his collages and gouaches, Georges Hugnet distinguished himself around 1935 by the development of bindings that became true book-objects, the most remarkable being those made for La Poupée by Hans Bellmer, L'Air de l'eau by André Breton or Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel. He participated in several surrealist exhibitions: in 1937 in Tokyo, Nippon Salon; in 1938, at the London Gallery... but for having maintained friendly relations with Paul Eluard after the latter's break with André Breton, he was excluded from the surrealist group in 1939 and his relations with its members became explosive. Georges Hugnet wrote many books among which we can cite dear Robert Godet in 1943 La Sphère de sable, illustrations by Hans Arp, Le Feu au cul, illustrations by Oscar Dominguez, Le Chèvre-feuille, illustrations by Pablo Picasso and especially in 1957 at the Galerie de l'Institut L'Aventure Dada 1916-1922 with an introduction by Tristan Tzara, a landmark Dada anthology