Lot 132
  • 132

Char, René

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 EUR
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Description

  • Char, René
  • Le Tombeau des Secrets. Sans lieu [Nîmes], Sans nom d’éditeur [Imprimerie Larguier], 1930. In-4, broché, chemise demi-maroquin rouge, étui.
  • ink on paper and leather
Édition originale très rare de ces poèmes ornés de 12 photographies dont une enrichie d’un collage original de Paul Eluard et André Breton.

Tirage à 103 exemplaires. Un des 90 exemplaires sur couché blanc des Papeteries Prioux.



Envoi autographe signé à Yves Tanguy :



… alors apparaît la seule
végétation que j’aime sous
le soleil écorché.
son ami, René Char



suivi de cette seconde dédicace à Georges Hugnet :



Le Tombeau Des Secrets
ou de la peinture et à la poésie.
à Georges Hugnet
dont les poèmes détruisent
les tombeaux et rafraîchissent
les secrets.
Son ami
René Char.
8 Avril 1945.


Condition

heads of spines and border of the edges slightly rubbed
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