Lot n° 169
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Paul Eluard.
A Moral Lesson. 1949.
Corrected typescript with autograph leaves of 66 pages, mounted in a large in-4 volume: green percale à la Bradel.
Important annotated and corrected typescript, including entirely autograph parts as well as a few printed pages, cut out and annotated by the poet, forming the complete working document of the collection.
A Lesson in Morals appeared in 1949 with Gallimard Editions, shortly after Nusch's death. (See next issue.)
Composition:
- Autograph title;
- List of Eluard's publications, 1 sheet in-12, corrected proofs with autograph additions;
- Preface. J'avoue. 2 ½ pages in-4. Autograph manuscript signed in pencil on fine paper, one correction in ink;
- Autograph mock-title for Part 1. 1 leaf in-4;
- Everything gets married. 2 newspaper clippings, autograph title;
- Typescripts of the poems Nusch, L'Heure embrasse le silence, with autograph titles; Horloge des subtiles noces,
O mort interminable (with autograph correction of 3 lines crossed out), Ombres, Volonté d'y voir clair, 15 leaves;
- Volonté d'y voir clair. Au bien, 1 newspaper clipping with autograph addition Au bien ;
- Les Souvenirs et le présent (autograph title and 2 autograph corrections), Les Sept voiles (autograph correction of title), Dans les pires conditions, L'Enfance maîtresse (2 autograph corrections),
L'Aurore fixe (4 autograph corrections), Je l'aime elle m'aimait, Sans rire, Le Désespoir besoin d'aimer, Dernier jour de l' hiver premier jour du printemps, Rêves (4 autograph corrections),
Mauvaise nuit bon jour, Lazare, A l'échelle animale (autograph title), Le langage des couleurs, le Grand Voyage, La Beauté du diable (3 autograph corrections), 32 sheets;
- Celui qui parlait de loin s'entendit répondre de près, Tout est sauvé, newspaper clippings, 3 sheets. Tout est sauvé will be published in 1950 under the title Hommage aux martyrs et aux combattants du ghetto de Varsovie, illustrated by Maurice Mendjizki;
- Autograph false title for the second part;
- Grèce ma rose de raison, newspaper clipping, 1 sheet;
- Autograph manuscript in pencil of Pour ne plus être seuls, Si la Grèce était délivrée, 5 sheets in-4, 6 autograph corrections;
- Table; 1 sheet in-4, autograph in ink with autograph additions in pencil.
In total, the collection contains 47 typewritten pages, 8 ½ autograph pages, 3 autograph title sheets, 8 laminated printed sheets.
Attached is an original photograph of a young woman, nude, full-length (silver print,
135 x 85 mm).
On the reverse, handwritten annotation signed: "L' habit ne fait pas le moine. I love you, Diane." And, at the foot, the notation: "Vienna."
Rare portrait of trapeze artist Diane Dériaz (1926-2013), friend of Olivier Larronde and Roland
Penrose. She published a memoir under the title: La Tête à l'envers, souvenirs d'une trapéziste chez les poètes, with a preface by Lawrence Durrell (Paris, 1988).
Eluard, who was under her spell, said of her, "I am in love with a traveller, she has her sun, I do not have mine."
Provenance: Daniel Filipacchi (I, 2004, no. 108).
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