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Heisler

Unpublished notes

Manuscript

Author

Author André Breton
People cited René Alleau, André Billy, Anne de Bretagne, Elisa Claro Breton, Luis Fernandez, Simon Hantaï, Jindřich Heisler, Man Ray, Dolfi Trost, André Breton, René Magritte, Benjamin Péret, Marie Cerminova, dite Toyen

Description

Breton's handwritten notes brought together on 13 January 1953 concerning the circumstances of J. Heisler's death.

In January 1953; these notes thrown confusedly on the paper constitute a frenzied record, in which the attentive reader will note traces of a rather violent atmosphere surrounding the names of Hantai, Heisler, and Toyen, with some inexplicable behaviour and chairs being thrown.
The alternation of inks suggests a ‘text’ taken up and resumed, with more clearly written calmer areas, and more difficult to understand shorthand passages. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Handwritten manuscript, 13 January 1953.
- 3 pages in-4°, one page of a text entitled ‘Heisler’, handwritten in black ink on the reverse side of a letterhead of the ‘À l'Étoile scellée’ gallery in which Breton recounts the circumstances of Jindrich Heisler's death and notes what happened at at this gallery. [sale catalogue, 2003]

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