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Georges Bataille
Ralph Webb
S.l.n.d. [Paris, circa 1921].Autograph manuscriptSold
Georges Bataille
Le Bleu du ciel
Paris, Pauvert, (September 30) 1957.“I believe it: only the suffocating, impossible ordeal gives the author the means to reach the distant vision awaited by a reader weary of the narrow limits imposed by convention.”Bataille’s writing dares to confront the unspeakable, the infamous, the unbearable, the obscene — in short, the impossible within a civilized society. In one of his…Sold
Georges Bataille
Il est difficile, mais il est gai, de s’imaginer de pierre…
S.l.n.d. [circa 1949].For this portrait of Bataille, drawn before the text was written, Lapoujade sketched only the barest outlines of the face, concentrating on the intense expression of the eyes and mouth. It was this portrait that inspired Bataille's dense and important text: “Il est merveilleux, il est risible d'être mort (...) Il est doux, il est…Sold
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