Jean Crotti papers

Renoir, Pierre, 1885-1952

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Varèse, Louise, 1890-1989

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Translator; Biographer. Louise Varèse was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1890, daughter of John Lindsay McCutcheon and Mary Louise Taylor. She attended Smith College (class of 1912), leaving in the fall of 1911 to marry Allen Norton. A son, Michael, was born in 1912. She was separated from Norton in 1916, and they were divorced in 1920. In 1922 she married composer Edgard Varèse. Throughout her life she translated works of French authors and poets into English, including Rimbau...

Guillaume, Paul, 1891-1934

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Severini, Gino, 1883-1966

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Italian painter. From the description of Letter from Gino Severini, Meudon, ca. 1949. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77935809 ...

Reynolds, Mary, 1891-1950

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Mary Reynolds (1891-1950) was one of the most important figures of the Surrealist movement. A young war widow, she moved from the U.S. to Paris in 1919. In 1923 she met Marcel Duchamp and maintained a friendship with him until her death. During the 1920s, she studied with the Parisian bookbinder Pierre Legrain and applied her skills to books given to her by such friends as Max Ernst, Man Ray, Paul Eluard, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, and Salvador Dali. Reynolds was active in the French Resistanc...

Christian, 1895-1969

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Nokache, Armand

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Braque, Georges, 1882-1963

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French painter. From the description of Letter, 1905 July 13, Honfleur. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80147574 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Varengeville, to John Rewald, 1951 Oct. 4 and [1956 Sept. 19]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870407 From the description of Letter, 1925. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78558538 ...

Seuphor, Michel, 1901-1999

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Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966

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French painter, writer and teacher, Ozenfant opened painting schools in Paris (1924 and 1932), London (1938), Cannes (1939) and New York (1939). In 1953 he was investigated by McCarthy and dismissed. He returned to France, where he was renaturalized. From the description of Letter to Prade, 1933 Nov. 27. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80589467 The French painter Ozenfant was also an author and a professor. He founded the art review L'esprit nouveau (1920-192...

Crotti, Andre

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Pach, Walter, 1883-1958

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Pach: Artist, critic, historian, writer, art consultant, curator; New York, N.Y. Instrumental in organizing the Armory Show, 1913. Winthrop: patron; New York, N.Y. His collection, left to Harvard University, included early American portraits, drawings by English and French artists, and Chinese sculpture. From the description of Walter Pach letter to Grenville Winthrop, 1933 Apr. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84852249 American artist and author. From the desc...

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973

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Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon...

Gleizes, Albert, 1881-1953

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French Cubist painter, illustrator, and theoretician (1881-1953). From the description of Letters to René Delhumeau, 1929-1931. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82422221 French painter, illustrator and Cubist theoretician. From the description of Homocentrisme ou le retour de l'homme chretien suivi de le rythme dans les arts plastiques [corrected proofs], 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79257397 Albert Gleizes was a French Cubist pai...

Blancpain, Paul

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Picabia, Francis, 1879-1953

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French painter. From the description of Letters, 1929, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79861140 ...

Villon, Jacques, 1875-1963

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Jacques Villon (also known as Gaston Duchamp) was born in Damville, Eure, in Normandy, France and was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker....

Var? ¨se, Edgard, 1883-1965

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Everling, Germaine

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Germaine Everling met the dada painter Francis Picabia (married, with four children) in 1917, when she was thirty years old, had a twelve years boy and was still married. Two years later she bacame Picabia's companion and the mother of his son Lorenzo. His governess, Olga Mohler, became the artist's new companion in 1933, then his wife in 1940. Germaine and Lorenzo continued to live in the villa built by the artist at Mougins, while Francis and Olga moved to his yacht anchored at Cannes. ...

Waldemar George, 1893-

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Dufy, Raoul, 1877-1953

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The painter and engraver Raoul Dufy began designing fabrics in 1912 at the encouragement of his friend, the couturier Paul Poiret. Dufy designed fabrics for Bianchini-Férier until 1927-28. From the description of Dufy letters and sketch, 1926. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81840340 ...

Cocteau, Jean

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French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Antonin Artaud -- French poet, essayist, actor and director -- was the leading playwright of the 'Theatre of Cruelty.' From the description of Le moine de M.G. Lewis raconté par Antonin Artaud [manuscript], ca. 1931 / Jean Cocteau. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 318989605 French poet, novelist, playwright, and artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed :...

Duchamp, Suzanne, 1889-1963

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Crotti, Jean, 1878-1958

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Swiss painter. From the description of Letters : to Andre de Ridder, 1923-1926. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79925131 Painter. From the description of Jean Crotti papers, 1910-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455421 From the description of Jean Crotti papers, 1910-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 319939689 Jean Crotti (1878-1958) was a painter who lived and worked in both Paris, France and New York, N.Y. ...

Coudour, Henri

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Salmon, Andr? ©, 1881-

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Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954

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Matisse was born in 1869 to generations of weavers in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, a northern French town whose woolen mills constituted the main industry. He was raised in nearby Bohain, famous for its luxury fabrics. This early exposure to textiles would shape his visual language: examples from his own collection of carpets and cloths from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East would deeply inform his sense of color and pattern and appear in his compositions. Taking up painting after first studyin...