Unnumbered copy of limited first edition of Jean Cocteau's L'ode à Picasso (Paris: La Belle Edition, 1919), heavly annotated by Cocteau. Laid in: business card of Louis Broder, with autograph manuscript note, signed.
Description:
Formerly owned by Louis Broder. Purchased from John McWhinnie on Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2008., Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author and filmmaker., and Title devised by cataloger.
Art, French--20th century, Authors, French--20th century, Gender identity in art, Lesbian artists--France, LGBTQ resource, Photographers--France, Photography, Artistic--France, Surrealism--France, Women photographers, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, French, and World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Channel Islands--Jersey
Art, French--20th century, Authors, French--20th century, Gender identity in art, Lesbian artists--France, LGBTQ resource, Photographers--France, Photography, Artistic--France, Surrealism--France, Women photographers, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, French, and World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Channel Islands--Jersey
Set of page proofs with autograph manuscript corrections for Breton's poem Fata Morgana, including illustrations by Wifredo Lam (25 pages). Accompanied by page proofs of an English translation of the work by Clark Mills with manuscript corrections in an unidentified hand (20 pages).
Description:
André Breton, French writer and poet, was one of the founders of the Surrealist movement., In French., and Purchased from Pierre Berès, on the Plain Fund, 1942.
Subject (Name):
Breton, André,--1896-1966, Lam, Wifredo, and Mills, Clark,--1913-
Subject (Topic):
Authors, French--20th century and French literature--20th century
Collection contains correspondence, writings, and other papers. Correspondence consists of letters to Dunan from writers, editors, friends, and others including Louis Artus, Jean Bouchary, Rodolphe Bringer, André Coeuroy, Paul Louis Couchoud, Henry D. Davray, Pierre Dominique, Gustave Geffroy, Henri Guilac, Maurice Hamel, Charles Hennebois, René Jouglet, René Kieffer, Albert Lantoine, Paul Laffitte, René Maran, Victor Margueritte, Jacques Natanson, Pierre Rives, Edmond Rocher, Guillermo de Torre, and Octave Uzanne. Writings consists of numerous short drafts, corrected. Other papers include a small quantity of clippings, financial records, manuscript fragments, and printed ephemera.
Description:
Purchased from Les Amazones on the Edith and Richard French Fund, 2009. and Renée Dunan, French author and poet.
