VALENTINE HUGO (1887-1968)


L'esprit du vin ou l'alcoolisme oil and grattage on canvas 79.5 x 64cm (31 5/16 x 25 3/16in).
|ProvenanceThe artist's studio; sale, Ader & Picard, Paris, 16 October 1968.Galerie Di Meo, Paris.Vera & Arturo Schwarz Collection, Milan (acquired from the above in May 1991).Donated by the above to the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (in 1998); their sale, Christie's, Paris, 8 June 2018, lot 161.Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.Exhibited Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Dreaming with Open Eyes, The Vera, Silvia, and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art in the Israel Museum, 21 December 2000 – 9 June 2001, no. 359.Rome, Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano, Dada e surrealismo riscoperti, 9 October 2009 - 7 February 2010.