ANDRÉ BRETON (1896-1966) PROLÉGOMÈNES SUR MATTA.... Lot 16

ANDRÉ BRETON (1896-1966) PROLÉGOMÈNES SUR MATTA. MANUSCRIT AUTOGRAPHE SIGNÉ.... ANDRÉ BRETON (1896-1966) PROLEGOMENA ON MATTA. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED. July 10, 1947. 2 1/2 pages in ink. First draft manuscript with erasures and corrections dedicated to the Chilean surrealist painter Matta. ...'It is in this measure that the man of Matta is like no other, the one of today, although it is not impossible to discover him a kinship of allure or of manners with such others who had preceded him in the glorious life of the other war. I think of Marcel Duchamp's "bachelors" and of such "good men" of Jacques Vaché '... ...' Never plastic work had shown so clearly, and as analytically, these two instincts to the grips. Because of this, it does not leave to present a certain ambiguity of reading, with its characters booted with harrows, tied with crossbows whose face (as it was necessary to expect it at the end of these times of "shelters") is rather of the mole than of the man and who do not maintain less a lingual and genital trade whose frenzy does not exclude the extreme concern of precision'... This text was published as a preface to the catalog of the Matta exhibition at the Drouin Gallery in 1947. PROLEGOMENA ON MATTA. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED. 10 July 1947. 3pp. ink on paper. Manuscript draft with erasures and corrections, dedicated to the Chilean surrealist painter Matta. ...' It is to this extent that Matta's man is like no other, the man of today, although it is not impossible to discover in him a kinship in appearance or in morals with such others who had preceded him in the glorious life of the other war. I think of Marcel Duchamp's "bachelors" and of such "good men" of Jacques Vaché '... ...' Never plastic work had shown so clearly, and as analytically, these two instincts to the grips. As a result, it does not fail to present a certain ambiguity of reading, with its characters booted with harrows, tied with crossbows, whose faces (as was to be expected at the end of these "shelter" times) are more like those of a mole than of a man, and who nonetheless maintain a lingual and genital trade whose frenzy does not exclude an extreme concern for precision... This text was published as a preface to the catalog of the Matta exhibition at the Drouin Gallery in 1947. Footnotes: Provenance Private collection, France. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com