Edgar Jené
Carte double signée d'Edgar Jené, adressée à André Breton, non datée.
Deux images, une notice descriptive, un lien.
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Manuscript of a text by André Breton for an exhibition by Edgar Jené at the Nina Dausset Gallery in December 1948.
A "bird's soul" with magnificent colours: presenting Jené's painting in this little preface dated 1948, Breton rediscovers the accents of automatic writing in order to express as closely as possible the truth of a work which, freed from all rational constraints, is itself close to automatism. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]
Autograph manuscript, 21 November 1948.
1 page in-4° handwritten in blue ink on the reverse side of Cause letterheaded paper, dated and signed by Breton:
"The art of Jené, this lyrebird on the gypsum pane of a grotto window overlooking the first meadows of fire in bloom, in a head slung for an aurora borealis..." Some erasures and corrections. [Auction Catalogue, 2003]
Bibliography
André Breton (Édition publiée sous la direction d'Étienne-Alain Hubert avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier et Marie-Claire Dumas), « Edgar Jené », Le Surréalisme et la Peinture, Œuvres complètes, tome IV, Écrits sur l'art et autres textes, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 2008, page 611 à 612, notice et notes p. 1326-1327.
| Creation date | 21/11/1948 |
| Bibliographical material | 1 page in-4° |
| Languages | French |
| Physical description | Ms - encre noire sur papier en-tête |
| Library | |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Reference | 1769000 |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 2290 |
| Keywords | Exhibitions, Work notes, Painting |
| Categories | Andre Breton's Manuscripts |
| Set | [Breton's Manuscripts and Drawings] dossier Le Surréalisme et la peinture |
| Exhibition | Edgar Jené |
| Permanent link | https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100122730 |
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