ANDRÉ BRETON (1896-1966) LE BOUQUET SANS FLEURS.... Lot 8

ANDRÉ BRETON (1896-1966) LE BOUQUET SANS FLEURS. MANUSCRIT AUTOGRAPHE [1924], 3 pages in-4 ... ANDRÉ BRETON (1896-1966) THE BOUQUET WITHOUT FLOWERS. AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIT [1924], 3 pages in-4 on Dada movement letterhead. First draft manuscript in ink with numerous erasures and corrections. 'In step... I dreamed of putting my ideas in step, of abandoning myself to the dull cadence of my life; I no longer wanted to reap the despair that I sow'... I thought of these men-refuges of which I am, with my head held high, as in excavations one is in the presence of a dead man still holding his miner's lamp. Always I will push back the damnation'... I have been reproached a lot lately for such lapses and, first of all, for not acting in a way that is more in line with my ideas, as if responding to the first call of these ideas, obeying the most frequent and strongest impulse that I have, all that was left for me to do was to go out into the street, guns in my fists, and one can see what would happen. Then, who knows, I would spare someone and everything would be done again'... Published in the number 2 of the Surrealist Revolution. THE BOUQUET WITHOUT FLOWERS. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT [1924], 3pp. paper with letterhead of the Dada movement, 4to. First draft, ink on paper with numerous erasures and corrections. 'In step... I dreamed of putting my ideas in step, of abandoning myself to the dull cadence of my life; I no longer wanted to reap the despair that I sow'... 'I thought of these refuge-men of whom I am, with my head held high, as in excavations one finds oneself in the presence of a dead man still holding his miner's lamp. Always I will push back the damnation'... I have been reproached a lot lately for such lapses and, first of all, for not acting in a way that is more in line with my ideas, as if responding to the first call of these ideas, obeying the most frequent and strongest impulse that I have, all that was left for me to do was to go out into the street, guns in my fists, and one can see what would happen. Then, who knows, I would spare someone and everything would be done again'... Published in issue number 2 of the Révolution surréaliste. Footnotes: Provenance Private collection, France. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com