Superb autograph poetic manuscript illustrated with 9 original gouaches, forming imaginary animals in the form of Rorschach tests, with verses by Michaux taken from Mes Propri\u00e9t\u00e9s<\/i> (Gallimard, 1929 – reprinted in La Nuit Remue<\/i> in 1935) and Animaux fantastiques<\/i> (Plume, 1938) calligraphically written out by \u00c9luard himself.<\/p>\n
It contains :<\/p>\n
\u00ab La fi\u00e8vre fit plus d\u2019animaux que les ovaires n\u2019en firent jamais \u00bb.<\/p>\n
\u00ab La Grande gu\u00eape-paradis. Un crapaud vaut deux gu\u00eapes \u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00ab Priv\u00e9 d\u2019eau il meurt, le reste est myst\u00e8re \u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00ab Certaines parpues peuvent pendant des heures modifier leurs yeux. On ne se fatigue pas de les contempler, “des \u00e9tangs qui vivaient” dit Astrose. \u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00ab La Bichuterie des Tr\u00e8mes plates et basses des punaises \u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00ab La Darelette \u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00ab L\u2019Emanglom \u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00ab Je ne peux faire d\u2019un seul coup de baguette des animaux entiers\u2026 Le Cartuis avec son odeur de chocolat \u00bb<\/p>\n
[\u2026]<\/p>\n
\u00ab Le Barabatte \u00bb<\/p>\n
The last leaf contains the following thought : \u00ab On n\u2019a m\u00eame pas la mort pour se d\u00e9fendre \u00bb (One does not even have death to defend oneself).<\/p>\n
This manuscript was made in the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Alban where \u00c9luard took refuge in November 1943. After publishing Libert\u00e9<\/i> in 1942, which was parachuted by British Royal Air Force planes onto occupied territory, \u00c9luard was sought by the French police. He took refuge in the Saint-Alban hospital run by his friend Lucien Bonnaf\u00e9, a Resistance fighter and communist who was also being watched by the Gestapo.<\/p>\n
There \u00c9luard discovered the Rorschach test. He appropriates this psychiatric tool and turned it into an artistic proposition by adding colours and adjoining Michaud’s verses.<\/p>\n
The manuscript is inscribed by \u00c9luard to his daughter C\u00e9cile, whom he had with Gala, future wife to Salvador Dali. The inscription is at the bottom of the last leaf, written in multicoloured pencil, indicating a new-year’s gift : \u00ab Pour les \u00e9trennes de C\u00e9cile 1944 \u00bb. It is signed in ink.<\/p>\n
Spine rubbed, small stains to spine and to the slipcase, else a magnificent copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Square 8vo (161 x 122 mm) autograph manuscript with original paintings, 10 nn.ll. facing poetry by Michaux, written by Paul \u00c9luard and 9 original paintings (bodycolour), also by \u00c9luard. Orange calf, lettered in gilt on upper cover, flat spine, git edges, with matching slipcase (F. Saulnier<\/i>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":83678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[546],"product_tag":[1246,1405],"class_list":{"0":"post-83691","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-manuscript","7":"product_tag-20th-century-literature","8":"product_tag-manuscript","9":"pa_auteur-eluard-paul-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-manuscript","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Paul ELUARD","chapeau":"Autograph manuscript by Paul Eluard illustrated with 9 original paintings","adresse_bibliographique":"Paul \u00c9luard, 1944","book_type":"Manuscript","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n