Author André BretonPeople cited Henri-Corneille Agrippa, Charles Baudelaire, Petrus Borel, Nicolas Calas, Charlie Chaplin, dit Charlot, Benjamin Constant, Gustave Courbet, Arthur Cravan, Delescluze, Denis Diderot, Georges Duthuit, Friedrich Engels, Félix Fénéon, Federico García Lorca, abbé Henri Grégoire, Géricault, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Jean-Paul, chevalier de La Barre, Wifredo Lam, Isidore Ducasse, dit comte de Lautréamont, Edward Lear, Jean-Paul Marat, Karl Marx, Gérard de Nerval, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich von Hardenberg, dit Novalis, Jacqueline Pascal, Edgar Allan Poe, Nicolas Edme Restif, dit Restif de la Bretonne, Arthur Rimbaud, Maximilien Robespierre, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Rowlandson, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just, Mack Sennett, Henri Beyle, dit Stendhal, Henry David Thoreau, Toulouse-Lautrec, Paolo Uccello, Jacques Vaché, Guillaume Apollinaire, Edmond Bayle, Charles Dodgson, Charles Cros, Honoré Daumier, Marcel Duchamp, Albert Einstein, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Maurice Heine, William Hogarth, Victor Hugo, Alfred Jarry, Robert Lebel, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Roberto Echauren Matta, Henri Michaux, Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, dit Paracelse, Pablo Picasso, Raymond Roussel, Georges Seurat, Yves Tanguy, Tristan Tzara, Antoine Watteau
Undated handwritten list by André Breton, part of the dossier for the Surrealism in 1947 exhibition.
A whole series of painters and writers illustrate the idea of Liberty, forming an extended list that is given here in two forms, one handwritten and the second typewritten, which attest to the existence of a precise project. The reference to Picasso and the affair of Stalin’s portrait makes it possible to date the whole thing to the 1950s, although no further details are known at present. We can nevertheless assume that it is a personal memorandum, one of those lists Breton likes to draw up; perhaps for a draft article or an issue of a review. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]
Manuscript, undated [1947].
Three in-12 pages of texts by André Breton handwritten in pencil, entitled ‘Liberty’. A list of names of philosophers, poets, painters and alchemists from the Renaissance to the present day: "Lautrec, Seurat, Gauguin, Picasso (The Death of Marat) Cravan, Apollinaire, Roussel, Jarry, Vaché, Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Duchamp".
A typed list of the same names is attached. [Auction Catalogue, 2003]
The names of Bachelard and de Broglie were inscribed and then crossed out. [Atelier André Breton website, 2021]
| Creation date | sd [1947] |
| Bibliographical material | 3 pages in-12 - 2 pages in-4° |
| Languages | French |
| Physical description | Ms - crayon, notes au crayon de couleur
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| Library | Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou, Paris : Fonds André Breton 10590 boîte de la vente |
| Number of pages | 3 - 2 p. |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 2282 |
| Keywords | Assemblage or collage, Film, Exhibitions, Work notes, Painting, Photography, Politics, Psychoanalysis, Sculpture |
| Categories | Archives |
| Set | [Exhibitions] 1947, Exposition Maeght 1947 |
| Exhibition | 1947, Le Surréalisme en 1947 |
| Permanent link | https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100402870 |
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The Scrap Book, an album of news paper clippings, post cards, and photographs from Canada and the U.S. begins in 1944, three years after André Breton's exile from France.
[Exhibitions] 2009-2010, Subversion of the images, Beaubourg, [Albums] Scrapbooks
