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[Paris, circa 1950], (120 x 170 mm), signed in graphite. The proof is signed "Man Ray" in graphite in the lower right-hand corner, and on the back is the poet Char's handwritten note "René Crevel ".
This proof is one of several that Man Ray supplied to his close friends in the 50s and 60s. A identical photo proof to this one - but unsigned - appeared in the Breton sale (2003, no. 5106).
Our proof is that of René Char, with a note on the verso in the poet's hand.
Crevel's suicide hit him hard. Years later, he would confess: "Since the death of this precious brother, I have not been able to reread a single one of his works. That's how much I miss him, the brilliance of his presence, the conquests of his thought of which he was prodigal. Of all the men I've known, he was the one who gave away the gold of his nature best and quickest. He didn't share, he gave."
The poet and literary critic Léon-Gabriel Gros castigated good society, which saw the poet's suicide as nothing more than a vulgar news item:… Read More

[NOTICE EN FRANÇAIS À LA SUITE]
Paris, Alphonse Derenne, 1876. 1 vol. (220 x 310 mm) de [1] f., 12 p. et [1] f. En feuilles, couverture titrée dorée sur le premier plat.
First edition.
One of 175 copies on vergé (n° 22), the only print run with the 20 Japan copies.
Copy in first printing.
Indeed complete with the frontispiece printed on chine and the bookplate engraved by the artist and enhanced with a pink wash on which appears the number of the copy in pink ink, as well as the pink lace holding the leaves.
"In this extraordinary poem, surprises of new images arose at every turn, as the poet described the impulses, the regrets of the goat-foot contemplating, on the edge of the marsh, the tufts of reeds still retaining, in an ephemeral mould, the hollow form of the naiads who had filled it. Then, des Esseintes also experienced captious delights in feeling this tiny plate, L'Après-midi d'un faune" (in Huysmans, "À rebours"). The collaboration between Manet and Mallarmé, after the portrait of… Read More

Éditions de la Galerie Simon, (August 9) 19391 vol. (120 x 170 mm) of 59 pp. and [1] f. Sanded gray calf decorated with rounded forms, horizontal filleting in palladium borders, title in orange oeser, lining of same sanded calf, orange velvet endpapers, covers and spine preserved, lined slipcase and chemise (binding signed François Brindeau, 2003).First edition. One of 90 copies on Arches laid paper (no. 84).16 black lithographs by André Masson, including one for the cover, 1 double-page and 2 hors texte. The copy is signed by the author and illustrator at the justification.Inscribed: "À monsieur Yves Poupard-[Lieussou], avec toute la sympathie de Michel Leiris" (To Mr. Yves Poupard-[Lieussou], with all the sympathy of Michel Leiris).
In 1924, Antonin Artaud was the director of the Bureau des recherches Surréalistes: it was he who asked Michel Leiris to prepare "a glossary of the marvelous", the first "linguistic fictions" of which appeared in n° 3, 4 and 6 of La Révolution Surréaliste. It… Read More

Paris, GLM, (January) 1969. 1 vol. (150 x 215 mm) of 25 p., [2] and 1 f. Full anthracite-gray tinted natural calf, stamped with an original etching based on a lithograph by Joan Miro, smooth spine, gilt edges on witnesses by Jean-Luc Bongrain, covers and spines preserved, goatskin velvet endpapers, lined folder and slipcase, title in chinois style on the folder, by Claude Ribal (binding signed by Louise Bescond, 2022).
First edition.
One of the first 95 copies on Arches (no. 65) containing the original color lithograph by Joan Miro, signed.
Inscribed copy by Miro : "Pour Gisèle, hommage d'amitié, Miro, VI/69".
In May 1968, away from the events shaking France, René Char suffered a heart attack, the first in a long series of cardiovascular accidents. From this "experience" he wrote Chien du Coeur, which he published a year later: "I believed that death was coming, but a death where, fulfilled by an unexampled understanding, I would have one more step to take before I fell asleep, to be returned… Read More