Author André BretonPeople cited Avdeenko, Louis Aragon, Charles Baudelaire, Petrus Borel, Carlo Dalmazzo Carrà, Gustave Courbet, Honoré Daumier, Otto Dix, Max Ernst, Sigmund Freud, Achille Funi, George Grosz, Jean-Dominique Ingres, Käthe Kollwitz, Isidore Ducasse, dit comte de Lautréamont, Vladimir Maïakovski, Jean-Paul Marat, Victor Margueritte, Benjamin Péret, Pablo Picasso, Arthur Rimbaud, Alfred de Vigny
Manuscripts of an interview with André Breton for the journal Indice in May 1935, and included in Position politique du surréalisme.
Prepared for a short-lived Canary Islands left-wing journal, this interview, entitled Interview with Indice was included in Position politique du surréalisme. Continuing the reflections carried out in Prague, Breton affirms the existence of a revolutionary (or at least dissident) art that doesn’t allow itself to be reduced to lessons of political discourse, and in the same way assimilates the ‘social element’, but doesn’t constitute its trace. For the poet it should be a way of reaffirming the revolutionary vocation of the art, and of the surrealism in particular, and the impossibility of leaving it in prey to the orders of a party or a cause. To the end of his life, Breton will uphold this position, which had been definitively formulated in 1932 at the time of the polemic with Aragon. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]
Handwritten manuscripts, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, May 1935.
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife, May 1935. Manuscript in red and blue ink of four folio pages on white paper, with erasures and corrections, titled and dated by Breton, constituting the complete text of the six questions (in blue ink) and the six answers (in red ink) of the interview conducted for the magazine Indice, a socialist cultural journal in Tenerife. The journal was apparently unable to publish the interview as it ceased publication in April 1935.
Attached is the handwritten manuscript of the first draft of most of the interview for Indice, four pages in green ink and black pencil in Breton's hand, with numerous erasures and corrections. [sale catalogue, 2003]
*This entry was translated from the French by Michael Richardson.
André Breton (Édition de Marguerite Bonnet avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier, Étienne-Alain Hubert et José Pierre), « Interview d'Indice (revue socialiste de culture) Tenerife », Position politique du surréalisme, Œuvres complètes, tome II, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1992, p. 445-450, notes p. 1587-1590.
| Creation date | mai-35 |
| Date of publication | 1935 |
| Languages | French |
| Reference | 439000 |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 2200 |
| Keywords | Aragon case, Investigations et Questionnaires, Aesthetic, Diary, Politics, Surrealism, Tenerife |
| Categories | Manuscripts, Andre Breton's Manuscripts |
| Set | [Albums] Album Prague Ténérife circa 1935, [AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts |
| Exhibition | Exposition internationale du Surréalisme de Ténérife |
| Permanent link | https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100029850 |
People cited Jacqueline Lamba, André BretonBy (photographer) non identifié
Photographie de groupe prise lors du voyage d'André et Jacqueline Breton aux Canaries en 1935, accompagnée de sept vues de Tenerife.
| Creation date | 1935 |
| Languages | French |
| Physical description | 13 x 17,9 cm (5 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.) - Tirage argentique monté sur carton |
| Size | 13,00 x 17,90 cm |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 5402 |
| Keywords | Exhibitions, Photography, Tenerife, Travel |
| Categories | 1931-1939 |
| Set | [Albums] Album Prague Ténérife circa 1935 |
| Exhibition | Exposition internationale du Surréalisme de Ténérife |
| Permanent link | https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100916290 |
Bonjour chère Constance Krebs. La date que vous donnez au document (janvier 1935) est fautive. André et Jacqueline Breton sont partis le 27 avril pour les Canaries (1ère Exposition internationale du surréalisme, du 11-25 mai 1935). Merci quand cela est possible, de donner la date de parution pour les livres. Merci par avance. Cordialement. Jean-Pierre Plisson
15/01/2013
Author André BretonPeople cited Rafael Alberti, Louis Aragon, André Breton, Gimenez Caballero, Cruz y Raya, Eastman, Sigmund Freud, Henri Lefebvre, Vladimir Maïakovski, André Malraux, Karl Marx, José Ortega y Gasset, George-Bernard Shaw, Toller, H. G. Wells, Nicolas Ivanovitch Boukharine
Manuscript of a talk given by André Breton in May 1935 in Tenerife
In this text in Breton’s handwriting, comprised of notes and references to quotes and clearly intended to be read, Breton appears in the third person. It is possible to suppose that this was a draft of the speech given in his place at the Circulo de amistad XIV de abril by Agustin Espinosa. The idea of the development of a collective myth, central in Breton’s thoughts at this date, appears as one of the necessary connections between surrealism and revolutionary action; a connection which of course constitutes an alternative to the intolerable submission of the artist to politics. [Atelier André Breton Website, 2005]
Handwritten manuscript, 1935.
- An 11-pages manuscript in-12 format, the first 9 foliated on headed paper from different establishments in Tenerife.
This working manuscript takes stock of Breton’s surrealist campaign in the Canaries:
“At this poetic point of Spain-Tenerife we have come to fix our position for future action, with its concrete conclusions: this position is a function of the general tone of intellectual values. Madrid, on a literary and artistic level, has done nothing other than spray its confusion, disorientation, madness and Salon illiteracy onto the intellectual pettiness of the provinces. All the old junk peddlers have arranged to meet in the capital of Spain.” (Some missing paper). [Auction catalogue, 2003]
Translated by Christina Heflin
| Creation date | mai-35 |
| Bibliographical material | 11 pages in-12 - manuscript - blue and black ink on beige paper; on the back various headings |
| Languages | French |
| Reference | 440000 |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 2201 |
| Keywords | Speeches, Aesthetic, Politics, Surrealism, Tenerife |
| Categories | Andre Breton's Manuscripts |
| Set | [Albums] Album Prague Ténérife circa 1935, [AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts |
| Exhibitions | Exposition internationale du Surréalisme de Ténérife , Discours du 23 mai 1935 |
| Permanent link | https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100765310 |
Author André BretonPeople cited Friedrich Engels, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti
Manuscript titled "Preface for the Copenhagen and Tenerife Surrealist Exhibitions" excerpt from the Prague conference, The Political Position of Surrealism.
This "Preface for the Copenhagen and Tenerife Surrealist Exhibitions" is in reality a reworked excerpt from the speech given in Prague in the spring of 1935. The original text appeared in The Political Position of Surrealism, Pléiade II, p. 488 in a more developped version including numerous citations. Leaning on the authority of Hegel, Breton attempted to properly legitimise the revolutionary value of a surrealist art that had been unjustly qualified as bourgeois by the Communists.
Handwritten, signed manuscript, undated [1935]
- 3 pages in-4° foliated on blue and pink paper, titled and signed by Breton. Published in issue 5-6 of the revue Cahiers d'Art under the same title.
"We also know what determining role, in the creation of this completely new artistic perspective, that Max Ernst's "collages" and "frottages" played, as well as the appearance of "Objects with symbolic functioning" (of automatic or dreamlike origin) promoted to real life following an initial request from Alberto Giacometti."
(La Pléiade, Volume II, The Political Position of Surrealism, Appendix, pages 488 à 491, 492, 495 and 496).
Translated by Christina Heflin
André Breton, (Édition de Marguerite Bonnet avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier, Étienne-Alain Hubert et José Pierre), Position politique du surréalisme, Appendices, Œuvres complètes, tome II, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1992, pages 488-491,492, 495-496.
| Creation date | 01/05/1935 |
| Bibliographical material | 3 pages in-4° foliated - manuscript - green and black ink on blue and pink paper |
| Languages | French |
| Number of pages | 3 p. |
| Reference | 438000 |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 2199 |
| Keywords | Exhibitions, Work notes, Politics, Reviews and Journals, Tenerife |
| Categories | Andre Breton's Manuscripts |
| Set | [AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts, [Journal] Cahiers d'art |
| Exhibitions | Exposition internationale Kubisme-Surrealisme de Copenhague , Exposition internationale du Surréalisme de Ténérife , Alberto Giacometti - André Breton, Amitiés surréalistes |
| Permanent link | https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100318330 |
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Manuscript of a speech given by André Breton on 23 May, 1935 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Three images, a description and a bibliography.
[Albums] Album Prague Ténérife circa 1935, [AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts
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Numéro 5 - 6, de la dixième année 1935, de cette revue artistique et littéraire éditée par Christian Zervos à Paris.
Une image, une notice descriptive.
People cited Marie-Berthe Aurenche, Domingo Lopez Torres, Domingo Perez Minik, Edouardo Westerdhal, Edouardo Westerdhal, Frantiśek Janouśek, José M. de la Rosa, Juan Manuel Trujillo, Jacqueline Lamba, Luis Ortiz Rosales, Dora Maar, Pedro Garcia Cabrera, Man Ray, Karel Teige, André Breton, Lise Deharme, parfois dite Lise Hirtz, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Agustin Espinosa, Vitezslav Nezval, Benjamin Péret, Jindrich Styrsky, Marie Cerminova, dite Toyen, Nusch ÉluardBy (photographer) non identifié
27 images d'un ensemble de 83 tirages réunis dans un album de voyages effectués au cours de l'année 1935 par André Breton et divers représentants du mouvement surréaliste.
83 tirages dans un album.
- Photographies de Château de Pouy : Jacqueline et André Breton, Max Ernst et sa fiancée ;
- Prague Marienbad, Karlsbad avril 1935 : Paul Éluard, Toyen, André Breton, Jacqueline Breton, Jindrich Styrsky, Karel Teige, Viteslav Nezval ;
- Ténérife mai 1935 : Jacqueline et André Breton, Péret et le groupe de Ténérife (diverses photographies de l'Exposition internationale de Ténérife) ;
- Saint-Jean-aux-Bois : Jacqueline et André Breton, Paul Éluard, Dora Maar et Nusch Éluard (photographie de Man Ray) ;
- Monfort-en-Chalosse août 1935 : Lise Deharme, Man Ray, Nusch et Paul Éluard, Jacqueline et André Breton, photo prise pendant le tournage du film de Man Ray : Essai de simulation de délire cinématographique. [catalogue de la vente, 2003 ; Sabrina Caber, 27 juin 2014]
Album comprenant 77 clichés (de gauche à droite)
2 Jacqueline Lamba, André Breton, Max Ernst et Marie-Berthe Aurenche en mars 1935 au château du Pouy à Jegun (Gers), propriété de Valentine et Roland Penrose
3 Jacqueline Lamba à Prague en avril 1935
4 quatre clichés de Prague
Paul Éluard et Toyen/ Paul Éluard / Paul Éluard / Paul Éluard et Toyen
5 Quatre clichés de Prague
André Breton/ André Breton/ Jacqueline Lamba et André Breton/ André Breton
6 Quatre clichés de Prague
André Breton et Karel Teige / Paul Éluard, Karel Teige, André Breton et Viteslav Nezval / Toyen, Paul Éluard, Viteslav Nezval/ Paul Éluard, André Breton et Jacqueline Lamba
7 Quatre clichés de Prague
Jacqueline Lamba/ André Breton / Paul Éluard/ Jacqueline Lamba
8 Quatre clichés à Karlsbad
Jacqueline Lamba, André Breton, Viteslav Nezval et Karel Teige / Paul Éluard et André Breton / Karel Teige, André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba et Viteslav Nezval/ Karel Teige, Paul Éluard, André et Jacqueline Lamba
9 Quatre clichés à Marienbad
Paul Éluard, Karel Teige, Jacqueline Lamba et André Breton / Karel Teige, Paul Éluard, Jacqueline Lamba et André Breton / Paul Éluard, Karel Teige, André Breton et Vitesval Nezval / Paul Éluard, André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba et Karel Teige
10 Quatre clichés de Prague
Karel Teige, André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba, Toyen, Paul Éluard/ Paul Éluard / André Breton, Paul Éluard et Vitesval Nezval / Jindrich Styrsky, Jacqueline Lamba, André Breton, Karel Teige, Paul Éluard, Vitesval Nezval, Toyen et Frantiśek Janouśek
11 quatre clichés de Prague
André Breton / Jacqueline Lamba et André Breton / Jacqueline Lamba et André Breton / Paul Éluard et Toyen
12 Un cliché de Prague
André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba, Karel Teige, Jindrich Styrky, Toyen, Paul Éluard
13 Un cliché de Tenerife, Canaries, en mai 1935
Portrait de Jacqueline Lamba en surimpression
14 Quatre clichés de Tenerife
Benjamin Péret, Jacqueline Lamba, André Breton et Domingo Lopez Torres / Juan Manuel Trujillo, Domingo Lopez Torres, Benjamin Péret, Jacqueline Lamba, X, Domingo Perez Minik/ Benjamin Péret, Jacqueline Lamba, Domingo Lopez Torres, André Breton / Domingo Lopez Torres, Jacqueline Lamba et André Breton
15 trois clichés de Tenerife
Pedro Garcia Cabrera, Domingo Perez Minik, Augustin Espinosa, Jacqueline Lamba, Benjamin Péret/ Domingo Perez Minik, Pedro Garcia Cabrera, Benjamin Péret/, Benjamin Péret (caché) Augustin Espinosa, Jacqueline Lamba, André Breton, Domingo Perez Minik et Pedro Garcia Cabrera
16 Un cliché de l’Ateneo de Santa Cruz, les locaux de l’exposition
Domingo Lopez Torres, Benjamin Péret, Edouardo Westerdhal, Jacqueline Lamba, André Breton, Augustin Espinosa, José M. de la Rosa, Domingo Perez Minik
17 Un cliché de l’exposition à l’Ateneo de Santa Cruz
18 Trois clichés de Tenerife
Pedro Garcia Cabrera, Domingo Perez Minik, Augustin Espinosa, Jacqueline Lamba, Benjamin Péret / Pedro Garcia Cabrera / Augustin Espinosa
19 Quatre clichés de Tenerife
Edouardo Westerdhal, André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba et Benjamin Péret / Edouardo Westerdhal, André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba et Benjamin Péret / Jacqueline Lamba, André Breton et Domingo Perez Minik/ Domingo Perez Minik et X
20 Quatre clichés de Tenerife
X, Benjamin Péret, André Breton et Jacqueline Lamba / Jacqueline Lamba, Domingo Lopez Torres et André Breton/ X et André Breton / paysage
21 Trois clichés de Tenerife
Objet / Jacqueline Lamba / objet
22 Quatre clichés de Tenerife
Benjamin Péret, André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba et Edouardo Westerdhal / André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba et Domingo Perez Minik/ Jacqueline Lamba / Jacqueline Lamba et André Breton
23 Quatre clichés de l’exposition de l’Ateneo de Santa Cruz
24 Quatre clichés de l’exposition de l’Ateneo de Santa Cruz
Salle / salle / Domingo Perez Minik / André Breton et Jacqueline Lamba
25 Quatre clichés de Santa Cruz et Tenerife
Domingo Perez Minik, Jacqueline Lamba et André Breton / X et André Breton / André Breton et Jacqueline Lamba / André Breton
26 Un cliché de Saint-Jean-au-bois en juillet 1935 (auberge À la bonne idée)
Dora Maar, Jacqueline Lamba, Paul Éluard, André Breton, Nusch Éluard
27 Un cliché d’août 1935 à Montfort-en-Chalosse (Landes) chez Lise Deharme
X, X, Man Ray, Nusch Éluard, Paul Éluard, Dora Maar ou Lise Deharme, Jacqueline Lamba et André Breton
(X, X ; peut-être Marie Dubuc, amie de Lise Deharme et directrice de l’école de Monfort, et son compagnon)
[Anne Egger, 2023, site André Breton]
Un grand nombre de ces images a été reproduit dans :
- Bulletin international du surréalisme, Prague, le 9 avril 1935, rep.p. 10
- Gaceta de arte, 4e année, n° 35, septembre 1935, rep.p. 4
- Gaceta de arte, segunda época, 5e année, n° 38, juin, 1936, rep.s.p.
- Boletín internacional del surrealismo, n° 2, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, octibre 1935,
- Milan, Galerie Schwarz, Hommage à André Breton, 1967, rep.pp. 29-30
- Sarane Alexandrian, Breton, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1971, rep.s.p.
- Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, La femme et le surréalisme, 1987, rep.p. 41
- Paris, Musée national d'art moderne / Centre Georges Pompidou, André Breton, la beauté convulsive, 1991, rep.pp. 220-225
- Gérard Durozoi, Histoire du mouvement surréaliste, Paris, Hazan, 1997, rep.p. 293, rep.p. 297
- Paris, Musée national d'art moderne / Centre Georges Pompidou, La Révolution surréaliste, 2002, rep.pp. 76-77, rep.p. 402
- Düsseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Surrealismus 1919-1944, 2002, rep.pp. 76-77, p. 424
| Creation date | 1935 |
| Date of publication | 1935 |
| Languages | French |
| Physical description | Tirage argentique sur papier |
| Reference | 4086000 |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 5057 |
| Keywords | Film, Photography, Group meetings, Tenerife |
| Categories | 1931-1939 |
| Set | [Albums] Album Prague Ténérife circa 1935 |
| Exhibition | Exposition internationale du Surréalisme de Ténérife |
| Permanent link | https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100758980 |
Author André BretonPeople cited Dr Jean-Martin Charcot, Théodore Flournoy, Sigmund Freud, Héraclite, Jaensch, Henry James, Kiesow, Isidore Ducasse, dit comte de Lautréamont, Lee Miller, Henry Moore, F. W. H. Myers, Paul Nash, Arthur Rimbaud, Dr Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, Hugh Sykes Davies, David Gascoyne, Humphrey Jennings, Roland Penrose, Herbert Edward Read
This address, which André Breton included in La Clé des champs, completes a previous conference, itself similar to the introduction he gave at the Copenhagen and Tenerife exhibitions. In “Limits not frontiers of surrealism”, he insists on the English gothic novel and its occultation of reason. The poet thus takes stock of a well identified but little explored legacy (Radcliffe, Walpole, Lewis); the conference then refers to Freud and William James, thus resuming the uninterrupted course of a reflection on knowledge.
Address probably given at the inauguration of the London surrealist exhibition
| Creation date | juin -36 |
| Languages | French |
| Physical description | Ms et placards collés - encre verte et imp et crayon vert |
| Reference | 455000 |
| Keywords | Exhibitions |
| Set | [AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts |
| Exhibitions | Exposition internationale Kubisme-Surrealisme de Copenhague , Exposition internationale du Surréalisme de Ténérife |
| Permanent link | https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100311330 |
People cited Jacqueline Lamba, André Breton, Benjamin PéretBy (photographer) non identifié
Un contretype d'une photographie du voyage d'André Breton avec Jacqueline Lamba et Benjamin Péret aux Canaries.
Date inscrite au dos de la photographie.
| Creation date | 1935 |
| Date of publication | 1935 |
| Languages | French |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 5314 |
| Keywords | Photography, Tenerife |
| Categories | 1931-1939 |
| Set | [Albums] Album Prague Ténérife circa 1935 |
| Exhibition | Exposition internationale du Surréalisme de Ténérife |
| Permanent link | https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100954110 |
