Lot n° 101
Estimation :
15000 - 20000
EUR
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: 9 750EUR
André BRETON.
La Situation du Surréalisme entre les deux Guerres.
Speech to French students at Yale University. No place or date [1942].
Autograph manuscript signed "André Breton," 8 pages in-folio on ruled paper mounted on tabs: supple notebook in iridescent gilt calf; on the first board, regular paving of foxed squares of the same iridescent gilt calf, each flanked by a faux-rivet of royal blue calf, including in the lower register a square of iridescent royal blue calf, titled in silver and plinthed with a slanted piece of the same tone-on-tone calf but embossed with "medium lines", which splits in the middle a horizontal strip of silver calf also embossed with "medium lines"; black nubuck linings (Jean de Gonet, 2004).
Exceptional autograph working manuscript, extensively corrected and crossed out, of the famous lecture given at Yale in December 1942.
"This speech had been requested on October 14, 1942 by Henri Peyre, a professor at Yale University, who would have liked to have it published in the Yale Review, but was prevented from doing so by the editorial secretary, who judged it "too diffi cult" for the journal's readers" (OEuvres complètes de Breton, III, Pléiade, pp. 1354-1355).
The manuscript shows variations from the printed text.
It is complete with the final paragraph that was removed when printed in the VVV (see below).
Very original and beautiful soft binding by Jean de Gonet.
We thank Fabienne Le Bars, author of the catalogue raisonné of Jean de Gonet (in progress) for the description of the binding.
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