Monique Watteau
Monique Watteau | |
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Born | Monique Dubois 23 December 1929 cryptozoological art |
Spouses | (divorced 1961) |
Alika Lindbergh (born Monique Dubois, 23 December 1929), commonly known by her former name Monique Watteau, is a Belgian
Early life
Watteau was born Monique Dubois[1] in Liège on 23 December 1929. Her father was Hubert Dubois, a playwright and poet with ties to Surrealism.[2]
Watteau studied painting and drawing at the
Career
Watteau's first novel, La colère végétale, was published in 1954. Critics praised it as a striking literary debut;[4][5] Albert-Marie Schmidt wrote that Watteau had created "a new kind of fantasy" (un nouveau fantastique).[5] Watteau was reportedly considered for the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Femina, but she was removed from the running of the latter prize in 1954 when the jury discovered that she had posed for nude photographs.[2]
Her following novels, La nuit aux yeux de bête (1956), L'ange à fourrure (1958), and Je suis le ténébreux (1962), cemented her reputation as one of the foremost
Her first three novels were written under the name Monique Watteau; her fourth gave her name as Monique-Alika Watteau. After its publication, she abandoned the name Monique altogether,[4] going by Alika Watteau[6] and later Alika Lindbergh.[4]
After publishing four novels, she turned to painting as a career.[4] Her output as a painter includes a notable corpus of cryptozoological art,[7] including her work as the primary illustrator of Bernard Heuvelmans's books.[4] When the cartoonist Hergé, researching Tintin in Tibet, asked Heuvelmans for details on the yeti, Watteau supplied a "graphic reconstitution" of the creature for Hergé's reference.[8]
In the 1970s, Watteau published two new books, Nous sommes deux dans l'Arche et Quand les singes hurleurs se tairont.[2] She published an autobiographical work, Le testament d'une fée, in 2002.[4]
Watteau also worked as an
Personal life
Heuvelmans was Watteau's first husband;
She married zoologist Scott Lindbergh,[2] son of aviator Charles Lindbergh, in 1968.[1] In 1972, Lindbergh and Watteau established a grant-funded primate research center on an 82-acre estate in the Dordogne valley in France, where they raised and studied dozens of South American monkeys.[11] Watteau and Lindbergh separated in 1983.[2]
During Watteau's marriage to Lindbergh, the couple arranged for Heuvelmans, then in poverty, to live in a small house on the grounds of the Dordogne estate.[10] Watteau attended to Heuvelmans during his final years,[12] and was with him at his death in 2001.[2] In accordance with his last wishes, Watteau was in charge of his private funeral in Le Vésinet.[12]
List of works
The following list comprises the original publications of Watteau's works. Because Watteau used multiple names, each entry includes the name under which the work was published.
As writer
- Monique Watteau, La colère végétale (Paris: Plon, 1954)[4]
- Monique Watteau, La nuit aux yeux de bête (Paris: Plon, 1956)[4]
- Monique Watteau, L'ange à fourrure (Paris: Plon, 1958)[4]
- Monique-Alika Watteau, Je suis le ténébreux (Paris: Julliard, 1962)[4]
- Alika Lindbergh, Nous sommes deux dans l'arche (Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1975)[13]
- Alika Lindbergh, Quand les singes hurleurs se tairont (Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1976)[14]
- Alika Lindbergh, Le testament d'une fée (Paris: E-dite, 2002)[4]
- Alika Lindbergh, "Préface," in Bernard Marck, Lindbergh, l'ange noir (Paris: L'Archipel, 2006)[15]
- Alika Lindbergh, "Préface," in Jean-Jacques Barloy, Bernard Heuvelmans, un rebelle de la science (Paris: Oeil du sphinx, 2007)[16]
As illustrator
- Hubert Dubois, Le danseur du sacre: poèmes, frontispiece by Monique Watteau (Brussels: Éditions des artistes, 1953)[17]
- André Romus, Voix dans le labyrinthe, frontispiece by Monique Watteau (Paris: Éditions James, P.J. Oswald, 1954)[18]
- Bernard Heuvelmans, Sur la piste des bêtes ignorées, illustrations by Monique Watteau (Paris: Plon, 1955)[19]
- Bernard Heuvelmans, Dans le sillage des monstres marins, Vol. I, Le kraken et le poulpe colossal, illustrations by Monique Watteau (Paris: Plon, 1958)[20]
- Le hibou et la poussiquette, translated by Francis Steegmuller, illustrated by Monique-Alika Watteau (London: Hart-Davis, 1961)[21]
- Bernard Heuvelmans, Le grand serpent-de-mer: le problème zoologique et sa solution: histoire des bêtes ignorées de la mer, illustrated by Alika Watteau (Paris: Plon, 1965)[22]
- Albert Jeannin, En vacances avec l'oncle Antoine, four volumes, illustrated by Alika Watteau (Lausanne: Rencontre, 1967)[23]
- Bernard Heuvelmans, Les derniers dragons d'Afrique, illustrated by Alika Lindbergh (Paris: Plon, 1978)[24]
- Bernard Heuvelmans, Les bêtes humaines d'Afrique, illustrated by Alika Lindbergh (Paris: Plon, 1980)[25]
- Jean-Léo, Histoire illustrée du cirque à Bruxelles: saltimbanques et gens du voyage depuis le dix-septième siècle, illustrations by Alika Lindbergh and others (Brussels: Archives générales du Royaume, 1998)[26]
Other works
- Le cimetière des cachalots, translated from the English by Alika Watteau (Paris: Laffont, 1966)[27]
- Allain Bougrain-Dubourg, L'agonie des bébés phoques, contributions by Alika Lindbergh and others (Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1978)[28]
- Regards croisés: collectif d'artistes peintres animaliers: Zsuzsa Farkas, Alika Lindbergh, István Nemes, catalogue for a Musée Cantonal de Zoologie exhibition of paintings by Lindbergh and others, 17 March to 19 May 2002 (Lausanne: Musée cantonal de zoologie, 2002)[29]
References
- ^ ISBN 9780486145624
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Matthys, Francis (15 August 2002), "Alika Lindbergh, construite pour l'amour fou", La Libre Belgique, retrieved 14 March 2015
- ^ "Deux sous de violettes", Gaumont.fr, Gaumont Film Company, 2013, retrieved 14 March 2015
- ^ JSTOR 40836843
- ^ ISBN 9782870275788
- ^ ISBN 9780307378880
- ISBN 9780684856025
- ISBN 9781421404547
- ISBN 9781134725304
- ^ a b Sykes, Bryan (2016), Bigfoot, Yeti, and the Last Neanderthal: A Geneticist's Search for Modern Apemen, Newburyport, MA: Disinformation Books, p. 70
- ^ "Son Says Lindbergh Lived for Future", The Hartford Courant, p. 23, 4 May 1977
- ^ a b Coleman, Loren (2001), "Bernard Heuvelmans (1916–2001)", The Anomalist, retrieved 14 March 2015
- OCLC 417468937
- OCLC 417657398
- OCLC 254970335
- OCLC 173273754
- OCLC 37592440
- OCLC 77968715
- OCLC 459306408
- OCLC 491862476
- OCLC 1860989
- OCLC 716189471
- OCLC 80426632
- OCLC 461670058
- OCLC 8132920
- OCLC 762866910
- OCLC 850985663
- OCLC 4514031
- OCLC 84689134
External links
- Monique Watteau at IMDb
- Monique Watteau at Library of Congress, with 3 library catalogue records
- Alika Lindbergh at LC Authorities, with 3 records