caption death_date death_place birth_name birth_place children imagesize birth_date spouse image article_title name occupation
autoportrait , 1918 21 june 1984 lunel , france jean hugo paris , france two sons , five daughters 180px 19 november 1894 valentine -rrb- hugo -lrb- 1919 -rrb- lauretta hugo -lrb- 1949 autoportrait-1918 . jpg jean hugo
 jean hugo artist
jean hugo

jean hugo -lrb- 19 november 1894 -- 21 june 1984 -rrb- was a painter , illustrator , theatre designer and author .
he was born in paris and died in his home at the mas de fourques , near lunel , france .
brought up in a lively artistic environment , he began teaching himself drawing and painting and wrote essays and poetry from a very early age .
his artistic career spans the 20th century , from his early sketches of the first world war , through the creative ferment of the parisian interwar years , and up to his death in 1984 .
he was part of a number of artistic circles that included jean cocteau , raymond radiguet , pablo picasso , georges auric , erik satie , blaise cendrars , marie-laure de noailles , paul eluard , francis poulenc , charles dullin , louis jouvet , colette , marcel proust , jacques maritain , max jacob , carl theodor dreyer , marie bell , louise de vilmorin , cecil beaton and many others .
