{"id":4994,"date":"2014-09-11T08:56:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T12:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=4994"},"modified":"2014-09-11T08:56:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T12:56:32","slug":"adventures-of-fido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2014\/09\/11\/adventures-of-fido\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures of Fido"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Le<\/a>Le Aventures de Fido Caniche<\/em> by surrealist artist Valentine Hugo, is an intricately detailed picture book that follows a dream sequence of Fido, an innocent, inquisitive poodle.\u00a0 In the dream Fido visits other exotic animals including a peacock and a lion, and at one point successfully imitates a lion to scare people and steal their food.\u00a0 However, when a rainstorm washes away his scary disguise the other forest animals mock him and he realizes he must return to his owner, Marguerite.<\/p>\n

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Valentine Hugo, a talented illustrator belonged to a famous circle of surrealists, at one point marrying Jean Hugo, but also was romantically involved with the surrealist Andre Breton.\u00a0\u00a0 She was drawn to ballet and set design, though her work was not always successful.\u00a0 Her most long lasting artistic endeavor and partnership was with Paul \u00c9luard.\u00a0 Her art was successful in her lifetime and she was in several surrealist exhibitions.\u00a0 There was also a posthumous retrospective of her work exhibited at Centre Culturel Thibaud de Champagne in 1977.<\/p>\n

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Houghton Library has several other works with Hugo\u2019s illustrations including: Le ph\u00e9nix. Avec 18 dessins de Valentine Hugo<\/em><\/a> by Paul Eluard, M\u00e9dieuses : po\u00e8mes<\/em><\/a> \/ de Paul Eluard ; illustr\u00e9s par Valentine Hugo and Mouvements de danse de l\u2019antiquit\u00e9 \u00e0 nos jours<\/em><\/a> \/ Valentine Gross.\u00a0 Also available at Houghton Library from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection, is a book of family photos compiled by Valentine Hugo from her younger years: Photos de familles : photograph album, ca. 1907.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Le aventures de fido Caniche \/ Valentine Hugo :\u00a0Paris : Guy\u00a0Le<\/span>\u00a0Prat, c1947<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is available at\u00a0the Fine Arts Library.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Emma Clement, Santo Domingo Library Assistant, for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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