ANDRÉ BRETON (1896-1966) LETTRE AUTOGRAPHE SIGNÉE... Lot n° 10

ANDRÉ BRETON (1896-1966) AUTOGRAPHIC LETTER SIGNED to [Francis VIELÉ-GRIFFIN] WITH TWO POEMS. [1918]. 4 pages in-8 in red ink. Letter addressed to Francis Vielé-Griffin in which Breton expresses his admiration for the symbolist poet and attaches two of his autographed poems that will be published in his first book Mont de Piété in 1919. Poem and to you alone are dated 1916 by Breton. "If mourning too often abuses your silences, let us believe in the wonderful eternity of your Joys and wish for soon new books of light" ... ... " Dawns farewell! I leave the haunted wood; I face the roads, torrid crosses. A blessing foliage loses me August is without breach like a millstone " ... ... "To you only who were the strange doll Sister, I said, I feel that under your small hands In precious bun would not curl the doll All that the green audacity of the clematis adorns " ... AUTOGRAPH LETTER to [Francis VIELÉ-GRIFFIN], SIGNED, WITH TWO POEMS. [1918]. 4 pp. in red ink, 8vo. Letter addressed to Francis Vielé-Griffin in which Breton expresses his admiration for the symbolist poet and attaches two of his autographed poems that will be published in his first book Mont de Piété in 1919. Poem and to you alone are dated 1916 by Breton. "If mourning too often abuses your silences, let us believe in the marvelous eternity of your Joys and wish for soon new books of light" ... ... " Dawns farewell! I leave the haunted wood; I face the roads, torrid crosses. A blessing foliage loses me August is without breach like a millstone " ... ... "To you only who was the strange doll Sister, I said, I feel that under your small hands In precious bun would not curl the doll All that the green audacity of the clematis adorns " ... Footnotes: Provenance Private collection, France. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com