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Hugué Manolo
"" They have character! " to Picasso in front of his Demoiselles d'Avignon. "
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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Avec Déodat de Séverac et Frank Burty Haviland, Manuel Hughé, dit Manolo, faisait partie des trois artistes qui, venus de Paris et en route pour Banyuls-sur-Mer, s’arrêtèrent à Céret en 1910. L’artiste y résidera de 1910 à1914 et de 1919 à 27. Céret deviendra l’un des lieux clefs du cubisme. Manolo Hugué s’éteint à Caldes de Montbui (près de Barcelone) en 1945 ; il repose au cimetière de cette petite ville dans laquelle il vivait. En hommage à sa mémoire, nous déposons sur sa dernière demeure un bleuet.
"Le sculpteur doit donner le poids, le peintre doit donner les mesures." - Manolo Hugué
"Manolo est nettement classiciste . . . comme l’école romane, comme Moréas qui est resté son maître à penser." - Daniel Henry Kahnweiler
"Manolo était vif et audacieux, et il possédait une force d’attraction telle qu’il groupa vite (à Céret comme à Paris) des amitiés autour de lui." - V. Richard de la Fuente
"Le Vallespir fut comme une patrie pour Manolo, même s’il n’y naquit pas, il y renaquit. Là, le sculpteur cérétan s’épandait dans le pur panthéisme. Là, il s’enracina, se fortifia, loin du Paris triomphant, de tout, de tout le monde." - Rafael Benet
"A Céret, je découvris la campagne. Les prés ici sont petits, ils sonts clos et tout est en eux, un relief immédiat. Je me trouvais avec mes reliefs faits. Il n’y avait qu’à regarder et à observer." - Manolo Hugué
"Sa vivacité lui ouvre toutes les portes du monde intellectuel, ses dernières œuvres l’ont élevé à la catégorie fort imprécise d’intellectuel à celle d’artiste producteur et ont placé au premier rang de l’art moderne en Europe cet homme aussi modeste que doué de talent." - Feliu Elias
Notes of biography
Manolo is the pseudonym chosen by Manuel Hugué and Martinez. This future sculptor, painter, printmaker, draftsman, is born in Barcelona (Spain) in 1872 and dies in 1945 in Catalonia (lighters). Raised by his sister in Barcelona, Manolo quickly emancipates from the tutelage to lead a life of adventure. He is a student at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona for 3 years and soon realizes few decorative arts projects.
He is twenty years old when, deserter, he makes his first trip to Paris in 1892. He settles there for ten years at the beginning of the century (1901-1909). There he becomes friends with Picasso, the sculptor ceramist Francisco Durrio, and the artists of Montmartre and Montparnasse. He is regularly at this period of time the night companion of poet Jean Moréas. Unable to earn his living, he moves to Ceret (Pyrenees-Orientales).
In 1910. In 1912 and 1913, for long stays, Braque, Picasso and Juan Gris come join him. Manolo contracts a severe illness at the end of the Great War; he must abandon sculpture to devote himself to painting, especially watercolor. In the mid-20s, he leaves Ceret and settles back into his country of origin, Caldes de Montbui (Spain).
Having participated in several group exhibitions, his work is also shown in solo exhibitions, mainly in Barcelona and Paris, but also in New York, the latter having been organized at the Museum Tavet-Delacour (Pontoise, 1995). Manolo often sculpts, models maternity or small figures impressions of primitivism. He illustrates Reverdy and realizes a few monumental sculptures (you can still see "The Catalan" on one of the places in Ceret).
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
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To read about the artist :
- « El escultor Manolo Hugué », R. Benet, Ed. Argos, Barcelone, 1942
- « M. H. - Sculptures, gouaches, dessins », cat., Ed. Galerie Louise Leiris, 1961
- « Manolo Manuel Hugué », Ed. Tramontane, Perpignan, 1967
- « Manolo. Escultura. Pintura. Dibujo », M. Blanch, Ed. Polígrafa, Barcelone, 197
- « Manolo, Escultura-Pintura-Dibujo », M. Blanch, Poligrafa, Barcelone, 1974
- « M. - Cent ans de peinture en Espagne et au Portugal 1830-1930 » ; Madrid 1989
- « Manolo Hugué », cat., Ed. Museu d'Art Modern de Barcelona, Barcelone, 1990
- « Manolo Hugh als 50 anys de da seva mort », Pozuelo de Alarcon, Madrid, 1995
- « Manolo », catalogue du Musée Tavet-Delacour, Pontoise, 1995
- « M. H. - Escultura, Pintura y Dijubo », Centro Cult. del Conde Duque, Madrid, 1997
To read from the artist :
- « Vie de Manolo, racontée par lui-même », Ed. & date inconnus
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Stamp by Hugué Manolo
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Artist's handwritten letter
Céret Museum Collection / This document is not for sale
+ A tribute to...
See all the tribute pages...
A tribute to Hugué Manolo
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Avec Déodat de Séverac et Frank Burty Haviland, Manuel Hughé, dit Manolo, faisait partie des trois artistes qui, venus de Paris et en route pour Banyuls-sur-Mer, s’arrêtèrent à Céret en 1910. L’artiste y résidera de 1910 à1914 et de 1919 à 27. Céret deviendra l’un des lieux clefs du cubisme. Manolo Hugué s’éteint à Caldes de Montbui (près de Barcelone) en 1945 ; il repose au cimetière de cette petite ville dans laquelle il vivait. En hommage à sa mémoire, nous déposons sur sa dernière demeure un bleuet.
"Le sculpteur doit donner le poids, le peintre doit donner les mesures." - Manolo Hugué
"Manolo est nettement classiciste . . . comme l’école romane, comme Moréas qui est resté son maître à penser." - Daniel Henry Kahnweiler
"Manolo était vif et audacieux, et il possédait une force d’attraction telle qu’il groupa vite (à Céret comme à Paris) des amitiés autour de lui." - V. Richard de la Fuente
"Le Vallespir fut comme une patrie pour Manolo, même s’il n’y naquit pas, il y renaquit. Là, le sculpteur cérétan s’épandait dans le pur panthéisme. Là, il s’enracina, se fortifia, loin du Paris triomphant, de tout, de tout le monde." - Rafael Benet
"A Céret, je découvris la campagne. Les prés ici sont petits, ils sonts clos et tout est en eux, un relief immédiat. Je me trouvais avec mes reliefs faits. Il n’y avait qu’à regarder et à observer." - Manolo Hugué
"Sa vivacité lui ouvre toutes les portes du monde intellectuel, ses dernières œuvres l’ont élevé à la catégorie fort imprécise d’intellectuel à celle d’artiste producteur et ont placé au premier rang de l’art moderne en Europe cet homme aussi modeste que doué de talent." - Feliu Elias
Art movements
+ SCHOOL OF PARIS MONTPARNASSE / 1915-1935 / Chaïm Soutine, Jacques Lipchitz, etc.
+ MODERN SCULPTURE / 1930-1970 / William Kenneth Armiage, Constantin Brancusi, Anthony Caro, Naum Gabo, Pablo Gargallo, Isamu Noguchi, etc.
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