Artist Monograph

Valentine Hugo, French

French, 1890–1968

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Etching	5	62.5%
Lithography	1	12.5%
Other Media	1	12.5%
Drawing	1	12.5%

Production by Decade

1

0s

3

1930s

2

1940s

1

1950s

1

1960s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	8	100%

Range: 10.5 cm → 23.5 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1964	1
1970	1
1987	2
2024	4

French Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 8 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Untitled Print Acc. 229.2024	n.d.	Etching	plate: 7 5/16 × 5 3/8" (18.6 × 13.7 cm); sheet: 7 1/2 × 5 5/8" (19.1 × 14.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Lawrence Saphire Bequest
Untitled Print Acc. 226.2024	1936	Etching with pasted detail	plate: 4 1/8 × 3 1/8" (10.5 × 7.9 cm); sheet (irreg.): 9 7/8 × 6 3/8" (25.1 × 16.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Lawrence Saphire Bequest
Trial proof for rejected plate and 2 folios of text from Les Animaux et Leurs Hommes, Les Hommes et Leurs Animaux Illustrated Book Acc. 470.1986	1937	Drypoint	plate 9 3/16 x 5 13/16" (23.4 x 14.8 cm) irreg. page 12 1/2 x 8 7/8" (31 x 22.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mrs. Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
Untitled from the illustrated book Les animaux et leurs hommes: Les hommes et leurs animaux by Paul Éluard Print Acc. 227.2024	1937	Etching	plate: 9 1/4 × 5 7/8" (23.5 × 14.9 cm); sheet: 13 × 9 7/8" (33 × 25.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Lawrence Saphire Bequest
Au Dépens des mots (At the Expense of Words) Illustrated Book Acc. 362.1987	1941	Illustrated book with one line block reproduction after drawing	composition (irreg.): 2 9/16 × 2 5/8" (6.5 × 6.6 cm); page: 3 9/16 × 5 11/16" (9 × 14.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mary Ellen Meehan Fund and Purchase
Untitled from the portfolio Alternance (Alternation) Print Acc. 228.2024	1946	Etching	plate: 9 × 7" (22.9 × 17.8 cm); sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 7/8" (32.7 × 25.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Lawrence Saphire Bequest
Plate from Un Poème dans chaque livre Illustrated Book Acc. 1100.1964.15	1956	Drypoint from an illustrated book with seven etchings (three with aquatint, one with aquatint, drypoint, engraving, and roulette), three drypoints (one with engraving), two aquatints, two woodcuts, one engraving, and one lithograph	plate: 5 7/8 × 4 1/8" (14.9 × 10.4 cm); page: 7 1/2 × 7 1/16" (19 × 18 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Louis E. Stern Collection
Plate (page 91) from Feuilles éparses Illustrated Book Acc. 202.1970.12	1965	Drypoint from an illustrated book with nine etchings (two with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint), two engravings, one aquatint, one drypoint, and one woodcut	plate: 8 3/16 × 6 7/8" (20.8 × 17.4 cm); page: 9 7/16 × 7 7/8" (24 × 20 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Donald Karshan Fund