In fact, he was very happy to see all those long-forgotten décors. Of his huge collection of African art, she has retained a couple of little statuettes which she uses as bookends.Paul Eluard was an avid art and book collector. "Ernst duly signed the frescos, for a fee. "My husband, a writer and shrewd businessman, rented the house from them for three months and hired a well-known restorer to peel off the wallpaper and retrieve Ernst's frescoes. They fell in love, punch-drunk on poetry and Russian literature, and married in 1917. In a dining room corner, Ernst had painted a big naked woman, whose body was sliced off. "Having grown up surrounded by some of the most colourful, eccentric and brilliant artists of the century, Eluard has a treasure trove of such memories. He would show me his little sculptures made of bric-à-brac. Now that everyone involved is dead, Eluard can reveal how her father's third wife, who married him a few months before his death in November 1952, made her waive her inheritance (under French law, children automatically inherit from their parents). Millions of French people were on the roads, going south, fleeing the German army. Her parents, Paul Eluard and Gala, born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, met in Switzerland at a sanatorium in 1913.
A year later Cécile Eluard was born, the only daughter of the very young couple. I never got to meet my Russian family. That terrified me." The maid said that Gala didn't have any daughter and that I was a liar. Looking back on her rich life and four marriages, Cécile Eluard says: "I married and divorced easily. Meanwhile, in her parents' room Ernst painted aardvarks eating ants and big human hands around the windows. All rights reserved. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Cécile Eluard was destined to find her loves and friendships among the luminaries of the avant-garde.
Paul Eluard's children: Cécile ELUARD daughter of Paul Eluard and Gala Dali In its 99th year. Occupations. "It has been a turbulent ride through the decades, but it has never been dull. They all carried his Ex Libris designed by Max Ernst with the motto: "Après moi, le sommeil" (After me, only sleep). When Eluard told her husband about them decades later, they drove to the old house, which was still inhabited by the artisan jewellers who bought it from Eluard in the late 1920s. He was 18, she 19. "Cécile Eluard was destined to find her loves and friendships among the luminaries of the avant-garde. "After Gala left, Cécile went to live with her paternal grandmother in Paris, seeing her father very regularly, and her mother only once or twice a year. After that, Cécile went to stay with her paternal grandmother in Paris, and saw her mother just once or twice a year. Start a FameChain Add to my FameChain. Cécile Eluard, Self: La Garoupe. "Poets were not rich. As she grew up in the family home of Eaubonne, north of Paris, in the late 1920s, the German dadaist "Ernst had painted on the walls of almost every room of our house," she recalls now at the age of 95. I kept talking with the maid who finally and defiantly said: 'Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray arrived this morning. 1918. Select any … We called Ernst. "Wouldn't she have preferred to hold on to such treasures?
His passion for art, and his avant-garde taste, meant he could support himself by buying and selling art. "A handsome young truck driver drove me there. We would go and have a swim in Vallauris, I would come and visit him whenever I liked in his studio in rue des Grands Augustins in Paris. He was so alive, so earthy, so absolutely not abstract!
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