La Cage (portrait d'André Breton)
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Israëlis Bidermanas, dit Izis
Deux portraits photographiques d'André Breton avec une cage à oiseau en 1948, signés Izis.
Quatre images, une notice descriptive.
The Collection
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Manuscript of ‘The cage of senses and its open door’, an unfinished poem by André Breton composed between 1931 and 1935.
Hand-written poem, sd [1931 - 1935].
'The cage of senses and its open door'; 1 page in-4° in green ink with erasures and corrections.
‘Escape isn’t what is most difficult; people have never known how to build prisons
‘In places that sound the emptiness of their morals instead of the previous day’s bars [...]' [sale catalogue, 2003; this entry was translated from the French by Michael Richardson, 2022].
Bibliography
André Breton, (Édition de Marguerite Bonnet avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier, Étienne-Alain Hubert et José Pierre), « La Cage aux sens et sa porte ouverte », Inédits I, Œuvres complètes, tome II, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1992, p. 661.
| Creation date | sd |
| Bibliographical material | 1 page in-4° |
| Date of publication | 1931 |
| Languages | French |
| Physical description | Ms - encre verte |
| Library | |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 2170 |
| Keywords | Work notes, Poetry |
| Categories | Andre Breton's Manuscripts |
| Set | [AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts |
| Permanent link | https://cms.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100026160 |
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