Author André BretonPeople cited A. Blanchet, Paul Claudel, Élie-Charles Flamand, G. Guénin, Simone Kahn, ép. Breton puis Collinet, Denise Labbé, Meret Oppenheim, Robert-Guy, Jean-Louis Bédouin, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Benjamin Péret
Manuscript signed by André Breton and dated 24 February, 1955.
With this 1955 text entitled ‘Everyday Magic’ Breton distantly echoes the beautiful formula of the ‘everyday marvellous’ with which the first chapter of Le Paysan de Paris ended in 1926. But Aragon having long ago crossed over to Stalinism, a text which may be one of the drafts of Breton's great project that year, a book devoted to magic art, is dedicated to the young Jean-Louis Bédouin. These pages are devoted to the fascinating game of correspondences, previously understood under the Hegelian category of objective chance, which would be published, accompanied by a long letter from ‘G.D.’ (Georgina Dubreuil) in the first issue of the journal La Tour Saint-Jacques in November. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]
Hand written manuscript signed and dated 24 February 1955.
- 2 pages in-4° of the first draft of a manuscript entitled, dated and signed in ink by Breton on the back of a L'Étoile scellée letterhead, with numerous erasures and corrections, which is drawn from a diary of incidents and disturbing coincidences that occurred on 21, 23, 24 and 26 February 1955.
‘When I return home, my dog, Uli, greets me with very unusual transports of joy. He races at full speed from one room to the next... such behaviour clashes with the psychology of his species... It's as if he had to alert me to an exceptionally happy event... At that moment I found an envelope on a table... which, from consideration for visitors, I had delayed opening until later. It contained a booklet entitled Salades by Robert Guy, bearing this dedication: ‘To A. B., in memory of the dog that almost brought us together.’
- 4 pages in-4° of the same text titled, dated, dedicated to Jean-Louis Bédouin and signed by Breton.
‘My friends who collaborate on Médium have known for a week that I intended for this issue to limit myself to considering the case of Denise Labbé... and that I felt that I could not undertake anything before the confrontation with her lover and her brother-in-law, scheduled for Saturday 26th... However, this morning I received a letter... from a woman who was not my girlfriend – far from it – but my mistress, as people weren’t afraid to say then.’
A few words from Breton we find in the manuscript on an envelope. [Auction catalogue, 2003]
André Breton (Édition publiée sous la direction d'Étienne-Alain Hubert avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier et Marie-Claire Dumas), Perspective cavalière, Œuvres complètes, tome IV, Écrits sur l'art et autres textes, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 2008, p. 926-927, notice p. 1412.
| Creation date | 24/02/1955 |
| Bibliographical material | MS, black ink - 2 pages in-4° on sealed L'Étoile letterhead.
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| Languages | French |
| Number of pages | 7 p. |
| Reference | 589000 |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 2400 |
| Keywords | Magic, Work notes, Dream |
| Categories | Andre Breton's Manuscripts |
| Set | [AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts, [Manuscrits d'AB] Perspective cavalière |
| Permanent link | https://cms.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100848450 |
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Letter from Georgina Dubreuil to André Breton, dated 18 February 1955.
16 images, a descriptive notice, an associated work.
[Correspondance] Lettres de Georgina Dubreuil, [AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts, [Manuscrits d'AB] Perspective cavalière
