Surrealism. ANDRE BRETON (1896-1966) and LISE... Lot 230

[Surrealism]. ANDRE BRETON (1896-1966) and LISE DEHARME Women's glove reproduced in Nadja, circa 1900. Bronze sculpture with brown patina. Weight: 490 g Size: 10 × 20 cm. Origin: SPECIAL COLLECTION Bronze sculpture with brown patina of a woman's glove, moulded at the very beginning of the 20th century. This glove is identical to the one lent by Lise Deharme, then given to André Breton to illustrate Nadja's original edition. Lise Deharme met André Breton at a Shakespeare performance in October 1924. At the end of the show, André Breton asked her if she would not like to accompany her to the "Centrale surréaliste". Following this visit, Breton asked him to leave one of his pale blue suede gloves as a symbol of the surrealist movement. The episode is recounted by Breton in his story "Nadja" where Lise Deharme appears under the name of Lise Meyer. " I also remember the gambling suggestion made one day to a request in front of me to offer the "Surrealist Central" one of the amazing blue gloves she wore to visit us at this "Central", my panic when I saw her about to consent, the pleas I made to her that she would not do so. I don't know what then there could have been for me a frighteningly, wonderfully decisive thought in the thought of this glove leaving this hand forever. Yet this only took on its greatest, its true proportions when this lady planned to come back to the table, where I had hoped so much that she would not leave the blue glove, a bronze glove she possessed and that since then I have seen in her house, a woman's glove too, with a folded wrist, fingers without thickness, a glove that I could never stop lifting, always surprised by its weight" (André Breton, Nadja). The glove offered by Lise Deharme to André Breton was sold in 2003 as part of the André Breton Collection, acquired by the Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet. To date, there are 4 other listed copies (Association Atelier André Breton) of Nadja's glove: Arturo Schwarz's copy donate