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Main première [First-hand]

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Author

Author André Breton
People cited Isidore Ducasse, dit comte de Lautréamont, W. Lloyd Warner, W. Lloyd Warner, Paul Gauguin, Karel Kupka, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Charles P. Mountford

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Manuscripts signed by André Breton and dated 5-10 October 1962.

Autograph manuscript signed, Paris, 5-10 October 1962. Three folio pages of a manuscript in ink, titled, dated and signed by André Breton with erasures and corrections of the text of his preface to Karel Kupka's book on Australian aborigines. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Autograph manuscripts signed and dated 5-10 October 1962.

3 folio pages in-4°, manuscript in ink, titled, dated and signed by André Breton with erasures and corrections of the text of his preface to Karel Kupka's book on Australian aborigines.

“Our good fortune is that things are quite different with Karel Kupka, who is driven by passionate attraction and feels no need to hide it. Australia, moreover, is poetically magnetised. [...] For a long time now, children's curiosity has revelled in the uniqueness of its mammalian fauna - marsupials and monotremes - which, above all else, lends credence to the idea or illusion of a lost world. Knowing that the northern part of the region is home to fairly homogeneous human groups whose clocks are several millennia behind our own is an added incentive to take a closer look.” [Auction Catalogue, 2003]

Bibliography

La Brèche, n°4, février 1963, p.32-35.

André Breton (Édition publiée sous la direction d'Étienne-Alain Hubert avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier et Marie-Claire Dumas), « Main Première », Perspective cavalière, Œuvres complètes, tome IV, Écrits sur l'art et autres textes, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 2008, p. 1024-1027, notice p. 1434-1435.

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Ouvrage du peintre et anthropologue Karel Kupka avec un texte d'André Breton intitulé « Main première », édité à Lausanne en 1962.
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Un art à l'état brut

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Karel Kupka

Ouvrage du peintre et anthropologue Karel Kupka avec un texte d'André Breton intitulé « Main première », édité à Lausanne en 1962, truffé d'une lettre de Péret.

Trois images, une notice descriptive, une bibliothèque.