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    Preliminary draft of the poem-object 'Portrait of the actor Andre Breton'

    Manuscript

    Author

    Author André Breton
    People cited Denis Diderot, La Cadière, Sanderson, Vaucanson

    Description

    Notes handwritten in pen and with a pencil drawing front and back, by André Breton, circa 1940.

    On the front, a drawing; on the back, some notes commenting on the monogram 1713, here read as a date, but which for Breton is above all the sign formed by his initials (AB). Diderot and Saunderson refer to blindness. The Unigenitus Papal Bull and the Peace of Utrecht are linked to a history considered as much in its religious as in its military aspect. Through the chance mediation of these signs, there is indeed a way of questioning one's destiny, of reading it between the lines of books and histories already written. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

    Autograph manuscripts, drawings, undated [1940 - 1941].

    - 2 pages in-18. The first page in ink relates to 1713, the date of Diderot's birth, but more importantly, these numbers form the monogram of André Breton. An original black pencil drawing by Breton on the second page, entitled ‘La Cadière 4 ans’. [Sale Catalogue, 2003]

     

    Bibliography

    - André Breton (Édition publiée sous la direction d'Étienne-Alain Hubert avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier et Marie-Claire Dumas), « Du poème-objet », Le Surréalisme et la Peinture, Œuvres complètes, tome IV, Écrits sur l'art et autres textes, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 2008, p. 695.

     

    Creation datesd
    Bibliographical material

    2 pages in-18 - MS - blue ink and black pencil.

    LanguagesFrench
    Physical descriptionMs - encre bleue et crayon noir
    Number of pages2 p.
    Reference490000
    Breton Auction, 2003Lot 2230
    Keywords,
    CategoriesAndre Breton's Manuscripts, Objects by André Breton
    Set[AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts
    ExhibitionArtists in Exile
    Permanent linkhttps://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100386540
    Exhibition place

    See also

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    On the Poem-Object

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    André Breton

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    André Breton's autograph manuscript dated 27 February 1942 and published in Le Surréalisme et la Peinture(‘Surrealism and Painting’) in 1965.

    Two images, a note, a link, a collection, a bibliography.

    [Breton's Manuscripts and Drawings] dossier Le Surréalisme et la peinture, [AB's Manuscripts] Poems-objects