Georges MALKINE

Rare invitation card to attend the first and only international exhibition of Surrealism held in Paris at the Beaux-Arts Gallery from January 17 to January 22, 1938.
Beautiful and rare copy despite two traces of glue on the back of the invitation card.
The signal of the departure of the exhibition given at 22:00 by André Breton will be followed by animations all more surreal than the others: appearances of beings-objects, interpretation of the trilogy "Hysteria - The crimson clover - L 'Missed act' by Hélène Vanel, cocks attached, fluorrescents clips, bedside hydrophilic sides, more beautiful streets of Paris, rainy taxi, sky flying bats.
The invitation card is illustrated with a photograph of Frankestein's authentic descendant, the "Enigmarelle" automaton built by the American engineer Ireland, which "will cross, at midnight and a half, in false chaity and fake bone, the room of the Surrealist Exhibition ".

Leaflet: "Ne visitez pas l'Exposition Coloniale” “Do not visit the Colonial Exhibition”

Rare first edition of this famous leaflet, published by the group of “Surréalistes,” directed against colonialism and, more precisely, the chief of police Jean Chiappe, guilty of having recently deported a Communist Indochinese student.
Rare and beautiful copy despite signs of frequent folding inherent in this type of document.
Text by André Breton, Paul Eluard, Benjamin Péret, Georges Sadoul, Pierre Unik, André Thirion, René Crevel, Louis Aragon, René Char, Maxime Alexandre, Yves Tanguy and Georges Malkine.
This leaflet is an opportunity for the “Surréalistes” to not only denounce the French police, but also the “brigandage” initiative that is colonialism, whose 1931 exhibition glorifies civilizing virtues.