André BRETON. - Lot 51

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André BRETON. - Lot 51
André BRETON. The Star Castle. Paris, no date [Imprimerie Union pour Albert Skira, 1936]. Grand in-4, blue canvas of the publisher decorated on the first plate. Rare first edition: reprinted separately from Le Minotaure magazine (No. 8, June 1936). Unique edition of 50 copies on vergé d'Auvergne (#3) decorated with an original color rubbing signed and justified by Max Ernst. The text, illustrated with eight reproductions of rubbings after Max Ernst, will form chapter V of L'Amour fou published by the NRF the following year. Signed double autograph: To Robert Valançay the starry castle where his cutlery is set, his room lends André Breton [three drawings] Max Ernst Poet linked to the Surrealist movement, friend and translator of Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters or Hans Arp, Robert Valançay (1903-1984) had signed one year earlier, in 1935, the collective leaflet Du temps que les surréalistes avaient raison which marked the break with the Communist Party. Most of his poems were collected in Mots desserre-freins, each section of which is dedicated to a surrealist: Bellmer, Éluard, Arp, Marcel Jean, Picabia. (Dictionnaire général du surréalisme et de ses environs, p. 419.) See, in this catalogue, his translation of Max Ernst's Paramythes (cf. no. 117). Slightly insulated back. (Spies & Leppier, Max Ernst, das Graphische Werk, no. 17.)
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