Nov 10, 2009 - Sale 2195

Sale 2195 - Lot 261

Price Realized: $ 277
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SURREALISM.) Breton, André. Manifeste de Surréalisme. Poisson Soluble. Nouvelle Édition. Frontispiece by Max Ernst * Vaché, Jacques. Lettres de Guerre. Preface by Breton. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, original wrappers, fragile; Manifeste has browning to leaves. Paris, 1929; 1919

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Lettres de Guerre contains one of Breton's earliest book appearances. Vaché was a WWI soldier who died of suicide by opium overdose. Breton admired him for his sense of the absurd and maintained that he had left an indelible imprint on Surrealism.