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Text addressed to the exhibitors
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Author André BretonPeople cited Arthur Rimbaud, André Breton, Daniel Cordier, José Pierre
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Manuscript and typescript signed by André Breton, dated 1 August 1959, inviting artists to participate in the EROS exhibition planned for December.
‘Aux exposants’ (To the exhibitors), presented here in two forms, one handwritten and the other, definitive, typewritten, this letter from Breton dated 1 August 1959 is an invitation to participate in the International Exhibition of Surrealism scheduled to take place at the Daniel Cordier gallery in December 1959 and January 1960. In the text, Breton introduces José Pierre, who will be in charge of the logistical aspects of the International Exhibition of Surrealism planned at the Daniel Cordier gallery in December 1959 and January 1960. He also set out the aesthetic stakes of this exhibition, which aimed to move beyond the sterile divide between ‘realists’ and ‘abstractionists’ by promoting, through the theme of eroticism, a relationship with nature that is not one of ignorance or blind loyalty, but the search for an organic link. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]
Signed autograph manuscript and typescript by André Breton, dated 1 August 1959 in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie.
- 2 1/2 pages in-4°, manuscript in ink titled by André Breton with erasures and corrections of this text which appeared as an introduction to the catalogue of the Exposition internationale du surréalisme at the Daniel Cordier gallery.
- 2 pages in-4°, typescript signed and dated in ink by André Breton of the same text.
“From Surrealism’s origins to the present day, it has always made incursions into the domain of eroticism. It is always there - and probably only there – that, through disruption, an organic link must be established between the exhibitor and the spectator, which is increasingly lacking in art today.”
(Published in the catalogue of the Exposition internationale du surréalisme under the title ‘Avis aux exposants’) [Sale Catalogue, 2003].
| Creation date | 01/08/1959 |
| Bibliographical material | 4 pages 1/2 in-4° - MS - in blue ink - TS - in black ink and pencil |
| Languages | French |
| Library | |
| Number of pages | 5 p. |
| Reference | 1827000_11 à 1827000_15 |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 2475 |
| Keywords | Exhibitions, Letter, Work notes, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, Surrealism, manuscript, Erotism |
| Categories | Archives, Archival Documents, Letters from André Breton, Andre Breton's Manuscripts |
| Exhibition | 1959, Exposition InteRnatiOnale du Surréalisme EROS |
| Permanent link | https://cms.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100182950 |
