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André Breton
Nadja
Paris, Gallimard, (May) 1963.Deluxe copy on green paper€2,500
André Breton
Perspective cavalière
New York, December 10, 1959.Lew Welch (portrayed by David Wain's character in Big Sur) and Albert Saijo published Trip Trap, a book of haikus, with Kerouac, written during the trip that took them from San Francisco to New York between September and December 1959. The final corrections were made on the spot, and this photograph captures that atmosphere: cigarettes,…€250
André Breton, René Char & Paul Éluard
Ralentir Travaux
Paris, Éditions Surréalistes, (April 20) 1930.Copy on jonquil-yellow paper€4,000
André Breton, René Char & Paul Éluard
Ralentir Travaux
Paris, Editions Surréalistes, (April 20) 1930.Copy on aqua-green paper€4,000
André Breton
Nadja
Paris, Gallimard, (May) 1963.André Breton's own copy€2,000
André Breton & Man Ray
La photographie n’est pas l’art
Paris, GLM, May 13, 1937.Breton & Man Ray redefine photography€1,000
André Breton, René Char & Paul Éluard
Ralentir Travaux
Paris, Éditions Surréalistes, (April 20) 1930.A six-handed collaboration€600
André Breton
Les Pas perdus
Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue française, 1924.Breton's own copy, deluxe green paper€5,000
André Breton
Démasquez les physiciens
[Paris] impr. SIP Montreuil, [February 1958].Tract printed on green paper€100
[SURRÉALISME] André Breton
Tir de barrage
[Paris], May 28, 1960.One of the last Surrealist tracts€60
André Breton
Deux lettres autographes signées adressées à Max-Pol Fouchet
[Paris, June 4, 1946] and undated.The first meeting between the two men€600
André Breton
Flagrant délit Rimbaud devant la conjuration de l’imposture et du truquage.
Paris, Thésée, (July 6) 1949.On 19 May 1949, Maurice Nadeau, together with Pascal Pia, published in Combat extracts from an unpublished Rimbaud text he had discovered at the bookshop of Adrienne Monnier; at the instigation of Pia and Maurice Saillet, the Mercure de France then published the full text.André Breton and Jean Paulhan immediately delivered an uncompromising verdict: it…€500
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