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Suite of seven photo-etched plates taken from Nadja's drawings

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Suite of seven photo-etched plates taken from Nadja's drawings Plates used for the illustration of Nadja. [Auction Catalogue, 2003] 'The Cat’s Dream' "The Cat’s Dream - showing the animal standing upright, trying to escape without realising that it is held down by a weight suspended from a rope that is also the disproportionately large wick of an overturned lamp - remains the most obscure drawing to me. It is a hastily made cut-out based on a vision.” 'A symbolic portrait of the two of us' "(...) the mermaid, in whose form she always saw herself from behind and from this angle, holds a scroll in her hand; the monster with the dazzling eyes emerges from a kind of vase with an eagle's head, filled with feathers that represent ideas." 'A flower' 'The Mazda butterfly' "She enjoyed imagining herself as a butterfly whose body would be formed by a 'Mazda' (Nadja) bulb towards which a charmed snake would rise (...)." 'A true shield of Achilles' 'Who is she?' ‘On the back of the postcard’ [Atelier André Breton website, 2014]

Bibliography

- André Breton (Édition de Marguerite Bonnet avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier, Étienne-Alain Hubert et José Pierre), Nadja, Œuvres complètes, tome I, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1988, p. 679.

Creation datesd
LanguagesFrench
Physical descriptionPlaques d'impression.
From / Provenancesl
Breton Auction, 2003Lot 3441
Keywords, ,
CategoriesAndre Breton's Manuscripts, Graphics
Set[AB's Manuscripts] Nadja
Permanent linkhttps://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100394810

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Prints of Nadja's drawings

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André Breton

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For the new publication of his book in the "pocket collection" (collection de poche) Breton reunited these famous drawings of Nadja, some of them as illustrations discussed at length in the book.

[AB's Manuscripts] Nadja