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Description
Undated and unsigned hand written manuscript by André Breton.
These two texts were published in 1948 in Poèmes and have primitive figurines as their subject. Like most New Zealand Tiki, New Guinea Korwars are carved wooden pieces. There is some humour in the invocations to these primitive gods, and the reader will note some discreet barbs in the poem ‘Korwar’ directed against the morality of action developed by the existentialists. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]
Hand written poem, sd (1948).
1 page in-4° handwritten poem in blue ink entitled ‘Tiki’ by Breton:
‘I love you before seas, red as the egg when it is green.’ [auction catalogue, 2003]
Bibliography
André Breton (Édition de Marguerite Bonnet avec la collaboration de Philippe Bernier, Marie-Claire Dumas, Étienne-Alain Hubert et José Pierre), « Xénophiles », Poèmes, Œuvres complètes, tome III, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 1999, p. 416.
| Bibliographical material | 1 page in-4° - Ms - blue ink with erasures and corrections, neither dated nor signed. |
| Library | |
| Reference | 500000 |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 2290 |
| Keywords | Work notes, Oceania, Poetry |
| Categories | Andre Breton's Manuscripts |
| Set | Poèmes, 1948 |
| Exhibition | Océanie |
| Permanent link | https://cms.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100999957 |
Exhibition place 
See also
2 Works
Les Quatre Vents, 8
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Numéro 8, publié en mars 1947, de cette revue dirigée par Henri Parisot à Paris.
Deux images, une notice descriptive, un lien.