André BRETON. Lot n° 49

Systematic cycle of lectures on the most recent positions of surrealism. 1935. Autograph manuscript decorated with 18 original signed drawings and collages, 4 pages on 2 in-4 (240 x 153 mm) leaves. Extraordinary original model of Breton's prospectus for the Conferences planned in June 1935: Breton's autograph manuscript is decorated with 18 original drawings and collages, all signed by the artists. We find, in order: - Man RAY, ink drawing in head - Oscar DOMINGUEZ, ink drawing - Salvador DALI, ink drawing dated 1935 - Jean ARP, ink drawing - Yves TANGUY, ink drawing - Marcel JEAN, ink drawing - Alberto GIACOMETTI, pencil drawing (ink signature) - Max ERNST, collage - Salvador DALI, ink drawing dated 1935 - Man RAY, photographic collage with ink additions - Yves TANGUY, ink drawing - Alberto GIACOMETTI, pencil drawing - Oscar DOMINGUEZ, ink drawing - Valentine HUGO, collage of paper doily in the form of lace - Alberto GIACOMETTI, ink drawing - Marcel DUCHAMP, fingerprint - Max ERNST, double collage - Jean ARP, ink drawing. Thus, Arp, Dalí, Dominguez, Ernst, Man Ray, and Tanguy made two compositions; Giacometti three. The cycle of four lectures planned by Breton in June 1935 did not take place. Breton himself, Paul Éluard, Georges Hugnet, Léo Malet, Benjamin Péret, etc. were to participate. Dalí also took part on three occasions; it was planned, among other things, that he would declaim an unpublished poem entitled "Je mange Gala", in which he would appear "dressed appropriately", and that he would present his surrealist objects followed by Breton's "poem-objects". The lectures were to coincide with the International Writers' Congress which was to take place in Paris at the same time. The project was probably conceived in February 1935, before Breton's departure for Prague, with Lise Deharme acting as secretary. The political events, Breton's trips to Prague and t