Qui inventa

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Georges Hugnet (1904-1974)
Qui inventa
titled 'qui inventa' (centre); signed, dedicated and dated 'à Germaine que j'aime Georges 1936' (lower right)
paper collage on board
22 1/8 x 15 7/8 in. (56.2 x 40.4 cm.)
Executed in 1936

Provenance

Waddington Galleries, Ltd., London (as 'Le Miroir Salamandre').
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 1983.

Exhibited

Miami Beach, Bass Museum of Art, La vie des lettres, French art from the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, February - March 1987 (illustrated p. 15).

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Lot Essay

Hugnet was one of the most engaging voices of Surrealist visual poetry and an important forerunner of the 1930s 'Concrete Poetry' movement which came to full fruition in early 1950s. Inspired by the radical abolition of boundaries between traditional artistic disciplines, his works are an evocative fusion of the image and the written word. Based in a purely Surrealist automatisme psychique, Hugnet's collages surpass through a free play of text and imagery. Speaking to the viewer's subconscious, Hugnet's poetic compositions are drawn from his own memories and dreams.

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