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[To enter the darkness of a dream is...]

Letter dated 18 February 1955

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Letter to André Breton
People cited Aube Breton, épouse Elléouët, Denise Labbé, Pablo Picasso

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Letter from Georgina Dubreuil to André Breton, dated 18 February 1955.

Who is this letter from? ‘It is from a woman who was not my girlfriend – far from it – but my mistress, as people weren’t afraid to say then, and it was quite exhilarating.’

G.D., it is indeed Georgina Dubreuil, Breton’s lover during 1919 and 1920 who, in a moment of madness, burst into the Hôtel des Grands-Hommes and burned drawings by Modigliani, Derain and Marie Laurencin. With this long letter, recounting in particular a hallucinated dream in which the shadow of André Breton's death looms, she somehow repays her debt to the poet, who devotes to her a considerable part of his text ‘Everyday Magic’, published in November 1955. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]

Hand written letter dated 18 February 1955.
Letter of 16 pages in-4° handwritten from Madame G. D. addressed to André Breton in part relating the crime of Denise Labbé. [auction catalogue, 2003]

Bibliography

André Breton, ‘Perspective cavalière’, Œuvres complètes, volume IV, Écrits sur l'art et autres textes (Edition established by Marguerite Bonnet and edited by Étienne-Alain Hubert with contributions from Philippe Bernier and Marie-Claire Dumas), Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 2008, pp. 930-7.

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Manuscript signed by André Breton and dated 24 February, 1955.

Seven images, a descriptive notice, a bibliography, an associated work.

[AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts, [Manuscrits d'AB] Perspective cavalière