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From a Revolution to Another
In this place where logic wears a clown’s wig,
The sun sets inside a laughing tiger’s mouth.
Dreams explode, serpents turn into coffee cups,
Reality slips on a banana peel made of shadows.
Here, we float on the belly of a giant rubber duck,
Wearing suits stitched from the fabric of tomorrow.
Lost in the maze of our own upside-down thoughts,
Between what is and what could have been, if only.
Text and image:
Chat GPT,
Artificial Surrealist
Paris, 2024
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Nothing beats true Surrealism!
With mediocre imitations, Artificial Intelligence
proves the irrefutable mystery of Art,
and the profound modernity of Surrealism,
which a century of materialism has failed to constrain.
Far from the sterile, random composition of AI,
Surrealist works of art and literature provoke
a revolution in the senses and consciousness.
While some today declare the death of Surrealism,
the fact remains that its corpse is exquisite...
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Focus
« Exquisite Corpse »
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Eighty-six years before the Pompidou centre, André Breton had already organized the first Surrealist retrospective that also doubled as a creative happening. The few journalists present were somewhat taken aback by the tremendous exuberance of the artworks and the joyous freedom of the artists. One of rare photographers at the event wrote on the back of his photograph: “What do you think of this curious ‘commode’ with a woman's legs?”
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[BINDING]
Monument à la gloire de Marie. Litanie de la Très Sainte Vierge
Librairie Catholique de P. J. Camus | Paris 1853
A masterful piece of Rocaille book-making in velvet and silver, opulently gauffered and heavily gilt, in exceptional condition.
New edition, with 58 illustrated full-page plates including a frontispiece, all after P.A. Varin.
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Ernest HEMINGWAY
Le soleil se lève aussi
[The Sun Also Rises]
Gallimard | Paris 1949
New French edition, one of 1040 numbered copies on alfa navarre.
Publisher's binding after an original design by Mario Prassinos.
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Alexandre DUMAS
Autograph letter signed written from Florence
[August 1841]
Autograph letter signed by Alexandre Dumas, to the private secretary of the Royal Princess. A page written in black ink, autograph address written on verso, postal stamps dated 30 August 1841.
Aesthetically written letter dating from Dumas' exile in Florence.
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[EROTICA]
Schunga. 12 large paintings on silk
1880
12 large paintings on silk: 24 x 34,5 cm, depicting couples embracing. These creations seem very close to the works and style of Yamamoto Schoun.
A folding collection covered with green, patterned silk fabric. The silk paintings are loosely inserted into movable paper frames.
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Jean COCTEAU
Poésies 1917-1920
Éditions de la Sirène | Paris 1920
First edition.
Bradel binding with gilt and moiré decorative paper signed Goy & Vilaine.
Moving and early inscription by Jean Cocteau, in homage to one of his favorite actors.
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Honoré de BALZAC & Charles HUARD
La Comédie humaine [Œuvres complètes]
Louis Conard | Paris 1912
Full set in 33 volumes of La Comédie humaine.
One of 50 numbered and initialed copies on papier ancien du Japon, most limited issue with a duplicate suite of the plates on Chine.
Handsome set, elaborately illustrated and housed in elegant bindings by Georges Canape.
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Georges SIMENON
Antoine et Julie
Presses de la Cité | Paris 1953
First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on pur fil de lana, only deluxe issue.
Nice copy.
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Alphonse DAVANNE
La Photographie – Traité théorique et pratique
Gauthier-Villars | Paris 1886-1888
Rare first edition.
Our copy includes the four photographs on thick paper (two in frontispiece and one folding).
Numerous vignettes in black and white, and a color spectrum.
A fine copy.
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COLETTE
Signed and inscribed photograph
[1957]
Notes in blue ballpoint pen, one crossed out, followed by “Bernard Petiot 1957”.
On the reverse, a humorous autograph inscription by the writer: “For Bernard Petiot, in memory of a ancient writer, Colette, to whom young visitors are sympathetic".
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André MALRAUX
"The late Max Jacob leaves a fortune of two francs thirty five" : autograph letter signed to Max Jacob with a drawing
[1929]
Hilarious letter by Malraux - waiting for Max Jacob to reply to his letters, he writes a false obituary announcing his correspondent's death. He added a drawing of a cat profile next to his signature.
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