André BRETON et Théodore FRAENKEL. Postcard addressed... Lot 41

André BRETON et Théodore FRAENKEL. Postcard addressed to Nusch and Paul Éluard. Morbihan], August 26, 1920. Autograph postcard signed, postmarked, address: "Monsieur et Madame Paul Éluard 3 rue Ordener Paris 18ème." Poem by the hand of Theodore Fraenkel, signed, dated Thursday, August 26th, 1920. Drinking red glass in blue wines, oil of life of castor in German water, horizon very close X A dead horse descended on a dead woman meets or does not meet a dead dog holding in leash a dead man A.B and Theodore Fraenkel The photograph on the front of the postcard appears: "Our old Breton professionals: The Quemener, old tailor from Coray." Fraenkel replaced professionals by Dadaists. In August 1920, Théodore Fraenkel had joined Breton in Lorient where he spent his holidays with his parents. "Comrade of Breton at Chaptal College since 1907, Théodore Fraenkel (1896-1964) has since then maintained a complicit friendship with him. In 1915, both of them were military nurses in Nantes and met Jacques Vaché, whose personality would mark them for the rest of their lives. If, having chosen a medical career, Fraenkel left few texts, this man with a caustic spirit and boundless curiosity played a decisive role in Dada à Paris" (Étienne-Alain Hubert in André Breton, Paul Éluard, Correspondance, 2019, p. 68. This unpublished map is not included; Mr. Hubert will include it in the reprint).