ARTAUD (Antonin). Autograph letter signed "Antonin... Lot 43

ARTAUD (Antonin). Autograph letter signed "Antonin Artaud" to Jacques Prevel. Sainte-Maxime-sur-Mer in the Var, [24 September 1946, according to the postmark]. 2 pp. 1/2 in-4 on a detached bifeuillet of a schoolboy ca_x0002_hier, ink stains of the scribe. "Dearest friend, I sent you a dispatch this day to say that I if you could find something and send it to me here, it would really do me a favor [opium]. I have been working a lot. I finished a poem called "Le retour d'Artaud le Mômo" [it would be published in 1947 by Bordas in his collection Artaud le Momo]. YOU HAVE PASSED THROUGH ONE OF MY DREAMS, ALL DIFFICULT ONES. BECAUSE MY LIFE IS BASICALLY THE MOST SINISTER OF NIGHTMARES. GO SEE JEAN DUBUFFET AND MAKE ARRANGEMENTS WITH HIM ABOUT YOUR BOOK. He told me that he was ready to give you the amount of his subscription. I've already told you that, but I'll remind you. Don't forget it. It will always be a few hundred francs. If you need some other money urgently, let me know. Here is my address again: Auberge du Sans-Souci, 34 rue Paul-Bert 34, Sainte-Maxime, Var. If you send a parcel, please recommend it but give another address and another name for yourself. To you with all my heart... "A MAUDIT POET, JACQUES PREVEL WAS A FRIEND OF ANTONIN ARTAUD, whom he met in May 1946. Weakened by poverty and drugs, he died of tuberculosis in 1951, and left a journal published in 1974 under the title En Compagnie d'Antonin Artaud.