Nusch Eluard (Nusch Éluard) | Biography (1906-1946)

Nusch Éluard

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German.
Born 1906 in Mulhouse.
Died 1946 in Paris

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Met Paul Eluard in 1930 while working as a model for sentimental postcards and as a walk-on at the Grand Guignol.

Married Eluard in 1934...

Man Ray
Nusch Eluard
1937
c. Estate of Man Ray

BIOGRAPHY

She died of a massive stroke on November 28, 1946. Her young life ended as she collapsed on a Parisian street.

Collages published in 1978 by Editions Nadada, New York.

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Gallery
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Dora Maar, Nusch Eluard, Pablo Picasso, Paul Eluard, Juan Les Pins, 1937.
Photo: Eileen Agar (Low Quality Scan)
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Nusch and Paul Eluard, 1944.
Photo: Lee Miller (Low Quality Scan)

During the war the Eluards remained in Paris while many Surrealists were in America. Both were active in the Resistance, and Nusch often walked the streets of Paris with large bonbon boxes full of Communist tracts and subversive poems. Lee Miller, a war correspondent for Conde Nast publications, arrived in Paris in 1944 and photographed the Eluards in their apartment.

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Nusch Eluard as the Queen of Clubs.
Photo: Man Ray (Low Quality Scan)

Man Ray photographed Nusch as the Queen of Clubs in a deck of Surrealist playing cards that also included Jacqueline Lamba as the Knave of Hearts.

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Paul Eluard & Portrait of Nusch, 1946.
Photo: Brassai (Low Quality Scan)

Paul Eluard in front of Picasso's portrait of Nusch Eluard, Rue de la Chapelle.

Photo-collage c. 1935.
Nusch Eluard (Low Quality Scan)

Photo-collage postcard. 5 3/8 x 3 1/2. Private collection. Photo courtesy Timothy Baum

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Photo-collage, c. 1935.
Nusch Eluard (Low Quality Scan)

Photo-collage postcard. 5 3/8 x 3 1/2. Collection of Timothy Baum, New York.

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Nusch Eluard, Valentine Hugo, c. 1934.
Photo: Timothy Baum (Low Quality Scan)

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