From CARL WILLIAMS RARE BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since 03 April 2023
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Original pen drawing. 26.5 x 20.7 cm., in dark ink on on untrimmed leaf of off-white paper ve?lin, mounted within silver and a red passepartout, glazed and framed in a silver gilt wooden frame by Michel Claisse of Paris with their rubber stamp, old print dealer's word-processed note pasted on to back. The drawing is a signed and inscribed example given to Rene? and Rene?e Laporte. N.p. [Paris], n.d., before 1954 possibly the 1940s. £7,500.00 Appears fine, unexamined out of the frame. E?luard's distinctive signature accompanies the full inscription in dark ink in a bold and clear hand at the foot of the very good and large drawing, which reads: 'a? Rene? et a? Rene?e Laporte ce double objet de mon assentiment Paul Eluard' ['to Rene? and to Rene?e Laporte the double object of my consent Paul Eluard']. A heartfelt and vital inscription to comrades in the Resistance on a gift of a big Picassian style draw- ing of a biomorphic, sensuous figure sitting with a large bird unfolding its wings and facing its face. The Laportes, like E?luard, were part of the internal, intellectual Resistance of the Free French to Vichy and the German Occupation. From their base in Antibes, the Laportes carried on a life ded- icated to art, literature and resistance. Rene? Laporte was a publisher, writer and novelist who at the tender age of 19 co-founded ? editions Cahiers Libres ', a vehicle for many Surrealist texts. He died early in 1954 in a car accident but lived a full writerly life and under The Occupation he co-pub- lished for the banned Editions Kra and monitored German radio broadcasts. The street where he lived during the war was renamed Place Rene?-Laporte. E?luard wrote to him from the psychiatric hospital of Saint Alban, where he was living the refugee life, that he would visit the Laportes in 1944, perhaps this was given to them on that visit. 243787. Seller Inventory # 243782
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Title: ?á René et á Renée Laporte ce double objet ...
Binding: Hardcover
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