ARTAUD (Antonin).
Autograph letter signed "Antonin Artaud" to Jacques Prevel. Ivry-sur-Seine, October 31, 1946. One p. 1/2 in-4 on a sheet of school notebook.
"Dear Jacques Prevel, I would like to ask you a very rare favor. It would be, when you come to see me tomorrow, to kindly bring me my cardboard drawings, which I need so urgently at the moment. I'll tell you why, but as I don't have the gall to think that this transfer is physical fun, I urge you to take a cab to Ivry. Marthe Robert will tell you [art critic who, along with Arthur Adamov, helped Antonin Artaud find a place in an institution near Paris on his release from the Rodez asylum where he had been interned]. Yours sincerely, in friendship... "
A MAUDIT POET, JACQUES PREVEL WAS A LAST-TIME FRIEND OF ANTONIN ARTAUD, whom he met in May 1946. Weakened by poverty and drugs, he died of tuberculosis in 1951, and left a diary published in 1974 under the title En Compagnie d'Antonin Artaud.
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