Robert Valançay correspondence 1921-1978

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....

Éluard, Paul, 1895-1952

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French poet. From the description of Paul Eluard manuscript, ca. 1950. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79860122 ...

Tanguy, Yves, 1900-1955

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The French Surealist painter Yves Tanguy, a naturalized American in 1848, was a close friend of the American Dadaist and Surrealist artist Man Ray. From the description of Letter to Man Ray, n.d. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79598511 ...

Hausmann, Raoul, 1886-1971

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Austrian artist (1886-1971), one of the founders of the Dada movement; active in Berlin 1912-1933; settled in France 1938-1971. From the description of Raoul Hausmann correspondence, 1909-1971 (bulk 1960s) (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79720742 Biographical/Historical Note 1886: Born on June 12th in Wein; trains with his father Viktor Hausmann, an academic painter. 1900: Moves with his parent...

Man Ray, 1890-1976

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Photographer. Halpert was director of the Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y. and a friend of director of museum director, James W. Foster. From the description of Photograph of Edith Halpert, [ca. 1930]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 744432180 From the description of Photograph of Edith Halpert, [ca. 1930]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455038 Biographical/Historical Note American-born photographer, painter, a...

Poupard-Lieussou, Y. (Yves)

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French scholar of Dada and Surrealism, vice president of the Association pour l'étude de Dada et du Surréalisme. Poupard's diligent efforts to gather data for reconstructing the history of Dada movement all over Europe and in America established him as a virtual center of information exchange, the new data being imparted to his numerous correspondents. From the description of Correspondence and collected papers on Dada and Surrealism, 1905-1984 (bulk 1956-1979). (Getty Research Ins...

Valançay, Robert

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Biographical/Historical Note Robert Valançay, born in 1903, was a poet, translator and literary critic who worked with and admired many of the artists and poets of the surrealist group. His literary achievements are all the more remarkable as he held a "day job" with Shell, translating as well as making documentary films for the company for many years. In the thirties, he seems to have published at least two volumes of poetry Flot...

Hugnet, Georges, 1906-1974

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French writer, poet and painter, expelled from the Surrealists in 1938, after a dispute with André Breton. From the description of Notes about André Breton, [not before 1947]. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78996469 French poet and critic. From the description of Georges Hugnet Papers 1920-1971. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 85242177 Georges Hugnet, Fren...

Ernst, Max, 1891-1976

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German-French Surrealist painter. From the description of Letter : Sedona, to Alfred Barr, 1947 Nov. 19. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77955633 Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a painter and sculptor, from New York, N.Y. From the description of Max and Dorothea Ernst letters concerning Max Ernst's American citizenship status, [ca. 1957]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122403886 German painter. From the description of Letter, ca. 19...

Oppenheim, Meret, 1913-1985

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Arp, Jean, 1887-1966

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French artist and poet. From the description of Letters, 1942-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86093273 ...

Huelsenbeck, Richard, 1892-1974

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German poet, closely involved with the Zürich Dada movement, Huelsenbeck introduced Dada to Berlin and edited several important Dada journals. From the description of Richard Huelsenbeck papers, 1910-1978. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78263944 One of the original founders of the Dada movement in Zurich. As a writer, he was associated with the Dadaists in Zurich and Berlin. He was living in Germany in 1933 when Hitler rose to power and immigrated to the Un...

Richter, Hans, 1888-1976

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German-born avant-garde artist and filmmaker. From the description of Hans Richter archive, 1916-1977. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122594159 German painter and film-maker, who emigrated in 1931. He lived and worked first in the Soviet Union, then France and Switzerland before settling in the U.S. in 1941, where he taught from 1942-1956 at the Institute of Film Technique, New York City College. In 1958 he returned to Switzerland where he died. ...

Bellmer, Hans, 1902-1975

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Polish-French artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to John Rewald, 1966 Oct. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870289 German painter and printmaker. From the description of Letters, 1945-1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82724940 From the description of Letters to Pierre Andrieu, 1946-1948 (bulk 1946) (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79019427 B. Katowice, Germany in 1902. From the des...

Parisot, Henri.

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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...

Breton, André, 1896-1966

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French surrealist poet. From the description of Letter, 1954. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 83290392 French writer and one of the founder of surrealism. From the description of Letter, 1955 Feb. 10. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79306565 ...

Massot, Pierre de

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