Collage - Journal 1932...

Collage - Journal 1932...

Friday, January 21, 2011

Patron to the arts and an eccentric - Vicomtesse de Noailles....


Marie-Laure de Noailles, Vicomtesse de Noailles (1902 - 1970)- a supporter of avant-garde artists, writers and composers.

Her circles - names from the past  - Balthus, Jean Cocteau, Francis Poulenc, Luis Bunel, Savador Dali, Man Ray, Jean Hugo.................British eccentric Edward James - He left the artistic intellektual life in Paris, New york for the jungles of Mexico and created his own paradise in Xilitla in the Mexican state San Luis Potosi set in the Sierra Madre.

de Noailles commissioned photography, sculptures, paintings from Miro, Balthus,Giacometti,Dora Maar,Constatin Brancusi...and her collection included works by Klee, Ruebens, Van Dyck, Watteau, Goya, Delacroix, Braque, and Picasso...
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Marie Laure de Noailles: La vicomtesse du bizarre

2 comments:

  1. Marie Laure de Noailles. La vicomtesse du bizarre - only in french as far as I know.

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