Man with Walking Stick
Auguste Giraudon's Artist (French)
late 1870's
Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative
Dimensions
image: 17.1 × 11.2 cm · matted: 45.7 × 35.6 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession Number
2010.7
Tags
male
About the Artist
Auguste Giraudon's Artist (French)
Georges Hugnet (1906–1974) was a multifaceted French artist, poet, writer, and critic whose innovative collages and graphic works bridged Dada and Surrealism. Born in Paris on July 11, 1906, he spent much of his early childhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, returning to France around 1913. His early life and artistic training remain sparsely documented, with no records of formal art school attendanc...