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Gustave Moreau

Manuscript

Author

Author André Breton
People cited Charles Baudelaire, M. Desvallières, Théophile Gautier, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, Gustave Moreau, Ary Renan, Auguste Renoir
Letter to Georges Duthuit

Description

Manuscript by André Breton dated September 1950 and dedicated to the painter Gustave Moreau. A second version of this text was published in Surrealism and Painting and dated 1961.

The long underestimated Moreau was one of Breton's personal heroes. Breton never ceased to defend him until critics learned to appreciate him in the early 1960s. In this text, dated September 1950, he closely associates the painter and his museum, the famous house that Breton made a personal focal point in the locality where he had then been living for thirty years. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Handwritten manuscript, September 1950.
3 pages in-4° handwritten in green ink, dated by Breton and dedicated to Gustave Moreau. It is addressed to Georges Duthuit:
‘I’d happily admit, my dear Georges, that I loved, and still love “madly”, a certain climate around Gustave Moreau; this is even an understatement! The discovery of the Gustave Moreau Museum, when I was around sixteen years old, conditioned my way of loving forever... It was so strong that the model of these women probably concealed all others from me; yes it was a complete bewitchment. […]'
Numerous erasures and corrections. [Sale catalogue, 2003]

*This entry was translated from the French by Michael Richardson.

Bibliography

- André Breton, « Hommage », in Ragnar von Holten, L'Art fantastique de Gustave Moreau, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1960.
- André Breton, « Gustave Moreau », Le Surréalisme et la peinture, 1965, repris dans la bibliothèque de la Pléiade sous la direction de Étienne-Alain Hubert, ŒŒuvres complètes, tome IV, p. 785-789 et les notes, p. 1371-1376.

 

Creation datesept-50
Bibliographical material

- André Breton, ‘Hommage ‘, in Ragnar von Holten, L'Art fantastique de Gustave Moreau, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1960.

- André Breton, ‘Gustave Moreau,’ Le Surréalisme et la peinture, 1965, reprinted in Œuvres complètes, volume IV, Écrits sur l'art et autres textes (Edition established by Marguerite Bonnet and edited by Étienne-Alain Hubert with contributions from Philippe Bernier and Marie-Claire Dumas), Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 2008, pp. 785-89 and notes, pp. 1371-76.

Manuscript of an undated text by Breton that constituted the foreword to L’Art fantastique de Gustave Moreau by Ragnar von Holten, published by Pauvert in December 1960.

Five images, a descriptive notice, a bibliography, some links.

[Breton's Manuscripts and Drawings] Surrealism and Painting folder, [AB's Manuscripts] Manuscripts 1958-196

Date of publication septembre 1950
LanguagesFrench
Number of pages3 p.
Reference518000
Breton Auction, 2003Lot 2323
Keywords, ,
CategoriesManuscripts, Andre Breton's Manuscripts
Set[Breton's Manuscripts and Drawings] dossier Le Surréalisme et la peinture, [AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Permanent linkhttps://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100907940

See also

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L'Art fantastique de Gustave Moreau

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Ragnar von Holten

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Catalogue consacré au peintre Gustave Moreau par le Suédois Ragnar von Holten, et publié à Paris en 1960 par Jean-Jacques Pauvert avec un « Hommage » signé d'André Breton.

Quatre images, une notice descriptive, une bibliographie.

[Breton's Manuscripts and Drawings] dossier Le Surréalisme et la peinture

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The discovery of the Musee Gustave Moreau...

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André Breton

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Undated manuscript of a text by André Breton forming the preface for L'Art fantastique de Gustave Moreau published by Pauvert in December 1960.

Five images, a description, a bibliography, some links.

[Breton's Manuscripts and Drawings] dossier Le Surréalisme et la peinture, [AB's Manuscripts] Manuscripts 1958-1966