Hugo Claus - De Vijanden, De Koele Minnaar + 2 originele foto's Henny Riemens - 1967

Nice lot on Hugo Claus (1929-2008) consisting of:
two first editions in very good condition:
- The photo-novel De Vijanden, 1967, De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam/Antwerpen, 160 pages (images from the eponymous film).
- De koele minnaar, original edition of 1975 with a Pop Art cover inspired by Roy Lichtenstein, De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam/Antwerp, 192 pages.
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- two portraits of Hugo Claus in Paris, by photographer Henny Riemens, 1955. Original-era prints. Stamp of Atelier Corneille on the back. 18 x 24 cm approx.

Hugo Claus, born April 5, 1929 in Bruges and died March 19, 2008 in Antwerp, is a Belgian writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter and director who wrote in Dutch.
Author of the famous Chagrin des Belges, he participated in the collective creations of the Cobra group painters.

Alongside Guillaume Corneille, Henny Riemens (1928-1992), the painter’s first wife, followed the Cobra group at every moment and provided essential testimony about the group as a photographer. Most books on the Cobra movement also reproduce images by Henny Riemens, widely circulated in the following decades. Passionate about Lévi-Strauss’s writings and early documentary reports on Africa, the couple embarked in 1956 on the audacious project of crossing Africa by jeep to be in total immersion.