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Final hour

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Author André Breton
People cited Jean Benoît, Nora Mitrani, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Victor Brauner, Roberto Echauren Matta
Contributions by Jean Schuster, Jean-Louis Bédouin, Marie Cerminova, dite Toyen

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Manuscript by André Breton written on 4 December 1959 about a performance on the eve of the EROS exhibition.

‘Dernière heure’ (‘Final Hour’) is a text with the air of a communiqué, of news in brief that Breton offers here, marked by the emotions of a ceremony of rare intensity: the Execution of the Last Testament of the Marquis de Sade, planned and delivered by Jean Benoît who timed his performance for the evening before the opening of the International Surrealist Exhibition of December 1959. The artist branded himself with the word SADE with a red-hot iron, prompting an even more extreme enthusiasm when Matta grabbed the iron so as to brand himself as well, and in so doing would be readmitted into the surrealist group. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Handwritten manuscript, 4^th December 1959.
‘Dernière heure’, first draft of a handwritten manuscript dated, titled and signed in ink by Breton, with deletions and corrections on the back of a sheet of headed notepaper for E.R.O.S. of this text for the exhibition catalogue (the last on the list of contents), relating to the rehabilitation of Matta and Brauner (1 in-4° page).
‘The Execution of the Last Testament of the Marquis de Sade by Jean Benoît, on 2 December 1959, provoked on the part of one of its (Matta) such emotionally motivated gestures that were to his greatest credit’ (E.R.O.S. catalogue, page 143). [Auction catalogue, 2003]

Translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski

Bibliography

André Breton et Marcel Duchamp, Exposition internationale du surréalisme, 1959-1960, Boite alerte, missives lascives, Paris, Galerie Daniel Cordier, 1959, dernier texte du catalogue.

José Pierre (dir.), Tracts surréalistes et Déclarations collectives (1922-1969), Paris, Le Terrain vague (Éric Losfeld éditeur), t. II,  183

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Exposition inteRnatiOnale du Surréalisme 1959-1960

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Robert Benayoun, Vincent Bounoure, André Breton, Daniel Cordier, Marcel Duchamp, Alain Joubert, Joyce Mansour, Mimi Parent, Octavio Paz, André Pieyre de Mandiargues
Jean ou Hans Arp, Enrico Baj, Jean-Louis Bédouin, Hans Bellmer, Robert Benayoun, Jean Benoît, Bona Tibertelli de Pisis, dite Bona, Victor Brauner, Elisa Claro Breton, André Breton, Jacques Brunius, Agustín Cárdenas, Leonora Carrington, Bill Copley, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dalí, Adrien Dax, Giorgio De Chirico, Guy Doumayrou, Marcel Duchamp, Yves Elléouët, Max Ernst, P.-A. Gette, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Arshile Gorky, Simon Hantaï, Jindřich Heisler, Jacques Hérold, Hiquily, Radovan Ivsic, Jasper Johns, Alain Joubert, Horst-Egon Kalinowski, Robert Lagarde, Yves Laloy, Wifredo Lam, Jacques Le Maréchal, René Magritte, Manina, Joyce Mansour, Maria Martins, dite Maria, Alberto Martini, André Masson, Roberto Echauren Matta, Édouard-Léon-Théodore Mesens, Joan Miró, Pierre Molinier, Nevelsson, Richard Oelze, Meret Oppenheim, Wolfgang Paalen, Mimi Parent, Benjamin Péret, Benjamin Péret, Francis Picabia, José Pierre, Robert Rauschenberg, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Jean-Claude Silbermann, Jindrich Styrsky, Max Walter Svanberg, Luis E. Tabara, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, Marie Cerminova, dite Toyen, Clovis Trouille, Roger Van Hecke, Marianne Van Hirtum, Monique Watteau, Unica Zürn

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Catalogue de l'Exposition inteRnatiOnale du Surréalisme (EROS) à la galerie Cordier de décembre 1959 à janvier 1960.

24 images, une notice descriptive à compléter, une table des matières, des expositions.

[Exhibitions] 1959-1960, [E.R.O.S.] Exposition internationale du Surréalisme