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UNUSED LETTERHEAD FOR L’ÉCART ABSOLU. 1965. ONE OF THE LAST GREAT SURREALIST EXHIBTIONS.

paul robertson — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:37:17 +0000

Paris: L'Écart absolu, 1965 27 x 21cm, 1pp black on white offset. The stationary for the final great surrealist exhibition that took place in L'Œil gallery in December 1965. The stationery has an uncredited drawing top right of a fork piercing a straawberry but the fork can be seen to be part of a rocky landscape. The creditted organisers are Breton, Philippe Audoin, Jose Pierre and Pierre Faucheux. VG+ condition. Scarce.

A VOUS DE DIRE. 1960.

paul robertson — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 20:16:18 +0000

Paris: Le Mouvement Surrealisme, 1960 32 x 24cm, 2pp black on green paper - public tract (written by Breton?) which outlines the aims of the Surrealist movement in 1960. Signed in print by Jean Louise Bedouin, Robert Benayoun, Andre Breton, Alain Joubert, Gerard Legrand, Jose Pierre, Jean Schuster and Jean-Claude Silbermann. The green of the paper has faded a little and there is a small paper lack on the left and a closed 2cm tear on the right else VG.

SAUVE QUI DOIT. 1961.

paul robertson — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 20:20:17 +0000

Paris: Surrealist group, 1961

22.5 x 14.5cm, 8pp black on yellow. Collective tract creating a public feud between the "left" of the group and the new artistic journal Planete published by Louise Pauwels and Jacques Bergiers. The debate did Planete no harm - it thrived. Signed by Bedouin, Benayoun, Breton, Dax, Jaguer, Revel amongst others. Fine.

DEMASQUEZ LES PHYSICIENS VIDEZ LES LABORATOIRES. 1958. TOYEN’S STAMPED COPY.

paul robertson — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 20:08:28 +0000

n.p (Paris/Bruxelles): s.p. (Belgium/Paris Surrealistes), 1958

20. x 20. 5 cm. 4pp tract black on green. A political leaflet distributed as one of the last hurrahs of the most politicised section of the surrealists. The text is a diatribe against the atomic bomb. Signed by (amongst others) Mesens, Toyen, Mansour, Peret, Breton and Lebel. Very good apart form a few small closed tears around the extremities and some unavoidable fading of the green.

This copy was previously owned by Toyen and is stamped "Toyen Succession".

AU TOUR DES LIVREES SANGLANTES! 1956.

paul robertson — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 18:01:05 +0000

Paris: Surrealist group, 1956

24 x 16, 4pp. First edition of this tract reasserting the surrealist group's adherence to the Third International and condemning the French imperialist struggle in Algeria (calling for a cease fire) and lining the group up with other international struggles (such as the Spanish student revolts).

Additionally the brochure quotes Eluard's poem in praise of Stalin in full emphasising in bold the lines which Breton saw as particularly offensive and anti-revolutionary. Signed in print by Bedouin, Benayoun, Breton, Brunius, Dax, Legrand, Mitrani and Peret amongst others. An image of Leon Trotsky by Annenkoff is reproduced on the back cover. Fine.