Marcel Jean scrapbooks, 1921-1940

Collection of four scrapbooks compiled by Marcel Jean between 1921 and 1940 containing over 150 tracts, exhibit catalogs, letters, advertisements, subscription forms, invitation cards, and other ephemera documenting Surrealism in France, Belgium, and other locations. Includes printed, typescript, and manuscript material relating to Surrealist exhibitions, publications, and political activity, including tracts on the Spanish Civil War and fascism. Printed ephemera feature artists and writers such as Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Tristan Tzara, René Char, and André Breton. Correspondence includes letters from Georges Bataille, Henri Pastoureau, Remedios Varo, Sheila Legge, Wolfgang Paalen, Eduardo Westerdahl and others to Jean, 1935-1939. Contains one photograph of Benjamin Péret and Jean at Léo Malet's house, 1935

Volume 1: 1921-1934. Volume 2: 1935-1936. Volume 3: 1937-1939. Volume 4: supplement, 1926-1940