Oscar DOMINGUEZ. Lot n° 248

Letter addressed to "dear friends". Marseille, Le 10/40. Autograph letter signed "Oscar" with five phalluses drawn at the end, 1 ½ page in-4 on letterhead of "Grand café glacier, La Canebière, Marseille". News from Marseille where painters and writers met with the hope of exile in Mexico. In Narbonne, Oscar Dominguez met Remedios Varo and Rius, who had been detained at the train station for 24 hours; they were now in Marseilles: "Since then I have found around here half of Montparnasse and Deux Magots. Mabille, Breton, Gide, etc... Unfortunately, this is more difficult than we thought: according to the latest news, the first boat would leave towards the end of the year. [...] Everything seems to be blocked; too many candidates for exile and no departure for 15 days. "The port is almost stopped from all traffic, and the city is completely full of people waiting... for events and a ship to leave... We play the game of piggyback". He wrote to Brauner to inform him of the situation and advised his friends not to go to Marseille. Under his address at the Hotel Gyptis, rue des Récollettes in Marseille, are five phalluses in his handwriting.