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Author André Breton
People cited Aloïse Corbaz, dite Aloïse, Louis Aragon, Enrico Baj, Luis Buñuel, Amalia Castillo Ledon, Arthur Cravan, Fleury Joseph Crépin, Giorgio De Chirico, André Demonchy, John Devoluy, Alberto Gironella, Georges Goldfayn, Eugenio Fernandez Granell, Simon Hantaï, Jindřich Heisler, Jean Hugues, Hector Hyppolite, Robert Lagarde, Yves Laloy, Wifredo Lam, Gérard Legrand, Michel Leiris, Jean-Bernard Lombard, Pierre Mabille, Joop H. Moesman, Meret Oppenheim, Wolfgang Paalen, Jacques Prévert, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Jean Roger, Endre Rozsda, Georges Schehadé, Jean Schuster, Max Walter Svanberg, Dorothea Tanning, Clovis Trouille, Jacques Vaché, Adolf Wölfli, Jean ou Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, Robert Benayoun, Victor Brauner, André Breton, Jean-Louis Bédouin, René Char, René Crevel, Aimé Césaire, Salvador Dalí, Adrien Dax, Robert Desnos, Marcel Duchamp, Jean-Pierre Duprey, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Louis Poirier, dit Julien Gracq, René Magritte, Joyce Mansour, André Masson, Roberto Echauren Matta, Édouard-Léon-Théodore Mesens, Joan Miró, Octavio Paz, Francis Picabia, José Pierre, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Benjamin Péret, Raymond Queneau, Raymond Roussel, Jindrich Styrsky, Yves Tanguy, Marie Cerminova, dite Toyen
Description
Handwritten lists of names of artists, writers and paintings, undated (circa 1962).
Between two invitations, these are lists intended for the 1955 republication of the two manifestoes of Surrealism [sic]. In addition to portraits of his friends and some of the people mentioned in the texts, there are lists of paintings to which André Breton attached such importance that he wanted them reproduced; these latter lists were perhaps intended for Sabine Weiss's photographic reportage illustrating Alain Jouffroy's feature published in L'œil in the autumn of 1955. [(sic) Atelier André Breton website, 2005]
Autograph manuscripts, five pages, including two on printed invitations.
On the verso of a card whose recto has not been reproduced:
- 1 page in-16 entitled ‘Portraits’ handwritten in ink by Breton, listing surrealist friends, poets, painters and sculptors (from Aragon to Vaché).
On the verso of an invitation to a Matta exhibition for Monday 19 February 1962:
- 1 page in-16, handwritten in ink by Breton, of a list similar to the previous one, but in a different order.
On the back of an invitation to the Mexican Embassy on Friday 30 March 1962:
- 1 in-16 text titled ‘To photograph rue Fontaine’, handwritten in ink and pencil by Breton, listing paintings belonging to him to be photographed. [André Breton website, 2018 - thanks to Pradial Peralta].
| Creation date | sd (circa 1962) |
| Bibliographical material | Five autograph manuscript leaves, two on printed invitation. |
| Languages | French |
| Physical description | Ms - encres noire et rouge, crayons rouge et bleu |
| Reference | 585000 |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 2501 |
| Keywords | Exhibitions, Work notes, Painting, portraits |
| Categories | Archives, Invitations, Andre Breton's Manuscripts |
| Set | [AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts |
| Permanent link | https://cms.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100805390 |