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[Francis Picabia and Pierre Andre Benoit]

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Author André Breton
People cited Pierre-André Benoit, Francis Picabia

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Manuscript by André Breton on the reverse of headed notepaper for the journal Médium, undated.

This comes from an assorted set of texts, some of which must have been published (hence the note at the bottom of the page added to a work and mentioning the discovery of an unknown source relating to the Douanier Rousseau); the note on Père Enfantin, Charles Fourier’s principal disciple, and especially a quote from Michel Butor about Magritte help suggest dating this collection to the 1960s, perhaps 1965, the year of the L'Ecart absolu exhibition held, as we know, under the auspices of Fourier, as well as the year of the republication of the definitive version of Surrealism and Painting. Judging from the archives, in any event, these are some of the last texts Breton drafted or copied. In this dossier are also found notes on de Sade, a bibliographic note on the editor Pierre André Benoit (several of whose works are contained in Breton’s library), games, bibliographic notations that might have been intended for an auction, and reading notes on painting that could also be linked to work for Surrealism and Painting. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Handwritten manuscript on headed notepaper for the journal Médium, undated.

- 1 in-4° page relating to Picabia’s writings published by Pierre André Benoit, in which André Breton sets out a bibliography:

‘As though without touching it but with the gift of each time producing the ace of hearts from the game [...] In Alès, Pierre Albert [sic] Benoit designs and prints himself – in very limited editions, if needs be, one at a time – so as to make their every drop sparkle, the last poems or articles by Francis Picabia.’ [Auction catalogue, 2003] 

Translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski