Modern French Art
Valentine Hugo
Nostalgie VII
1962
Watercolor and colored crayon
10 5/8 x 8" (27 x 20.4 cm)
The Carlton Lake art collection contains works by such major artists as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Odilon Redon, and André Derain, with a special focus on Jean Cocteau. Several hundred items highlight Cocteau and his connections in theater, literature, ballet, and music, and relate to his works Orphé, Parade, Les Enfants terribles, and Les Parents terribles. The collection contains Cocteau's portraits of Blaise Cendrars, Raymond Radiguet, Georges Auric, and Erik Satie, and portraits of Cocteau by Diego Rivera, Raoul Dufy, and Pablo Picasso, as well as material by Valentine and Jean Hugo.
The Artine Artinian art collection features prints and drawings of French notables, including several etchings by Robert Kastor and numerous portraits of such authors as Honoré de Balzac, Colette, Guy de Maupassant, Paul Valéry, and Emile Zola.
For information regarding other French holdings at the Ransom Center, please see the French and Italian web pages.
Watch broadcast journalist Mike Wallace's interviews from the television program The Mike Wallace Interview. Wallace donated the show's footage on 16mm kinescope to the Ransom Center in the early 1960s. Most episodes have not been seen since they aired.
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