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IAN HUGO Water Veiled.
Soft-ground etching and engraving, 1947. 247x375 mm; 9 3/4x14 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dedicated, dated and numbered 22/50 in pencil, lower margin. A very good, clearly-printed impression.
While working at the National City Bank, in New York, Hugh Parker Guiler (1898-1985) met and married the French-Cuban writer Anaïs Nin. In 1924 they moved to Paris where Nin's diary flowered and Guiler's artistic aspirations developed. Fearing that his associates would not understand his interest in the arts, Guiler embarked on a second life as Ian Hugo. In 1940, while supporting Nin financially, for which she would be forever grateful, Hugo took up printmaking under Hayter at Atelier 17 in New York. As a result, he produced many Surrealist prints that explored other worlds: dreams, the unconscious, memories and even the sea, as in the present work; this imagery often accompanied Nin's books.
