Lot Essay
The title Patte (Paw) is probably as well a contraction of 'Paul' (Paul Eluard, the subject of the portrait in the double profile's image) and 'chatte' (a female cat).
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COLLECTION OF A NEW YORK GENTLEMAN
VALENTINE HUGO (1887–1968)
Patte
Details
VALENTINE HUGO (1887–1968)
Patte
etching, on wove paper, 1937, signed in pencil and inscribed ‘épreuve état’, (a proof copy separate from the published edition of seventeen copies), from the album Les animaux et leurs hommes, les hommes et leurs animaux (etchings by Valentine Hugo, accompanied by poems by Paul Eluard), published privately in Paris, with pale scattered foxing in the margins and on the reverse, otherwise in generally good condition, framed
Image: 9 ¼ x 5 ¾ in. (235 x 146 mm.)
Sheet: 12 ½ x 8 7/8 in. (318 x 225 mm.)
Patte
etching, on wove paper, 1937, signed in pencil and inscribed ‘épreuve état’, (a proof copy separate from the published edition of seventeen copies), from the album Les animaux et leurs hommes, les hommes et leurs animaux (etchings by Valentine Hugo, accompanied by poems by Paul Eluard), published privately in Paris, with pale scattered foxing in the margins and on the reverse, otherwise in generally good condition, framed
Image: 9 ¼ x 5 ¾ in. (235 x 146 mm.)
Sheet: 12 ½ x 8 7/8 in. (318 x 225 mm.)