#valentine hugo

Spirit of the Sunflower by Valentine Hugo, 1934

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Valentine Hugo. Portrait of Rimbaud. 1961.

Valentine Gross-Hugo’s sketches of Nijinsky’s choreography for the Sacrificial DancefromThe Rite of Spring, 1913.

Valentine Gross (1887 – 1968), a.k.a Valentine Hugo, was a French art student in Paris in the 1910s. She became a ballet enthusiast, illustrator, researcher and painter. She witnessed annual seasons of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in Paris and made preliminary sketches during performances and rehearsals between 1909 and 1919. Later, she worked the penciled drawings to various degrees of finish including colored illustrations and paintings. Photo by Man Ray, 1935.

Pastel drawing by Valentine Gross-Hugo showing a moment from the end of the first scene of Le Sacre du Printemps, 1913.

Sheet showing preliminary sketches of the Danse SacralefromLe Sacre du Printemps, by Valentine Gross, 1913.