Gazette Drouot logo print
Lot n° 36

CHAR RENÉ (1907-1988)

Estimate :
Subscribers only

Les Voisinages de Van Gogh, corrected proofs with autograph additions [Spring 1985], 11 large in-4 plates, seven of which are two-column, 2 in-4 typescripts with autograph ink corrections, one autograph folio page and various documents. Proofs corrected by the author and by a prote from Gallimard and autograph additions. Complete set of the corrected cupboards with two hands, one of which is the author's. One reads at the top: "Give the right to print only new proofs. R.C.". The printing of the original edition, published by Gallimard, will be completed by May 3 of the same year. A large autograph page signed R.C. Sept. 84, entitled: "Les Voisinages de Van Gogh. L'Avant-Glanum", with the primitive title crossed out: "View of the oppidum of Jupus today Glanum" and numerous erasures and corrections. - Reproduction above n° 104. 2. the corrected or annotated typing of two poems "Irréflexion" and "Demi-jour en Creuse", the latter previously entitled "Un couple de renards", dated 1984 and annotated by Char: "Poem read by Paul Veyne at the funeral of Michel Foucault". 3. An essay of frontispiece different from the one that was chosen, annotated on the back by René Char: "Gouache de Galpérine. 1984". 4. A duplicate of the declaration of the work to the Régie du Dépôt légal, by the Gallimard editions, indicating its edition and selling price, addressed to René Char.