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What will my room be at the journey's end?

Manuscript

Author

Author André Breton
People cited Charles Baudelaire, Georges Braque, Fleury Joseph Crépin, Giorgio De Chirico, André Derain, Stanislas Drouet, Jean Dubuffet, Madeleine Ferré, Joachim de Flore, Charles Fourier, Hector Hyppolite, Juan Carlos Langlois, Henri Lefebvre, Xavier de Maistre, Martinez de Pasqually, Gustave Moreau, Edvard Munch, Félix Nadar, Andrée Olive, James Pradier, Man Ray, Albert Skira, E. B. Taylor, Aloys Zötl, Guillaume Apollinaire, Stephen Chauvet, Marcel Duchamp, Charles Filiger, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso

Description

A manuscript relating to an editorial project of André Breton and Albert Skira of a never published text with a projected title of ‘What will my room be at the journey’s end?’

Xavier de Maistre, in no particular order, with this splendid title for a never written book: ‘What will my room be at the journey’s end?’. The subject would have been the treasures in a certain studio located at 42 rue Fontaine. But Breton's last project, elaborated in complicity with Albert Skira, never appeared. The writer would have included in it reproductions of paintings and objects he owned, or no longer owned, such as Picasso's Head, or The Child's Brain, which had been sold a few years earlier. Perhaps the Atelier André Breton site is the delayed realization of this half-imaginary museum, which we would say today call virtual, in a form the poet could not have imagined. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Handwritten notebook, 1966.
- 1 school notebook titled in ink on a label: ‘What will my room be at the journey’s end?’ and of which 5 pages are handwritten in black pencil by Breton who describes the paintings, books and objects that surround him in his studio, beginning with a list of those he regrets not having or no longer possessing:
‘Regretted: De Chirico: The Child's Brain.
Duchamp: The Bride. Picasso: Miss Leonie.
Miró: Ploughed Earth...
Desired but out of reach (Chahut, The Wave, etc.)...
Books: The Golden Fleece (Martinez de P.), Recreations, drawn from natural history, The Picturesque Medicine (Fourier) [sale catalogue, 2003].

*Translated by Michael Richardson.

Bibliography

André Breton (Édition publiée sous la direction d'Étienne-Alain Hubert avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier et Marie-Claire Dumas), Œuvres complètes, tome IV, Écrits sur l'art et autres textes, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 2008, p. 1176-1178.

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Quarterly newsletter of Skira Art Editions

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Skira quarterly bulletin, issue 4, dated December 1966, with a tribute from Albert Skira to André Breton who had recently died.
Pas d'image, une notice descriptive à compléter, des liens.

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[For me it's always...]

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Albert Skira

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Letter dated 31 January 1966, about a never to be published text whose projected title was What will my room be like at the journeys’ end? 

Three images, a descriptive note, a library, a bibliography.

[Correspondance] Correspondance avec Albert Skira

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[I tried in vain]

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Albert Skira

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A letter dated 19 February 1966, and a contract dated 18 February 1966, relating to a text that was never published and whose projected title was What will my room be like at the end of the journey?

Six images, a descriptive note, a library.

[Correspondance] Correspondance avec Albert Skira