André BRETON and his friend Marcel DUCHAMP.

André Breton (1896.1966).

Autograph card signed to Jean Suquet.

A page in-12° on the back of a map representing the entrance to the Château de Trécesson. (Paimpol. September 1949).

Interesting letter from Breton about the research carried out by Suquet on Marcel Duchamp .

“My dear friend, I am very impatient to see you again and to know where your investigations have led you. I believe you will pass this stage of doubt that you tell me about puns (generally dropped from conversation and collected by others) and optical discs. I believe that all this is resolved in the highest consciousness that has ever been gained from the activity of play (that's where you will have to look too, certainly). But I continue to be delighted that you have undertaken this study . You are fully qualified to carry it out. This is not only due to the qualities of your mind but to your whole way of being (I don't know how to explain it). We will be back in Paris around the 17th, perhaps at Place Bl. on Sunday evening. And you ? Affectionately. André Breton. »

Writer, poet, photographer and member of the Surrealist group, Jean Suquet (1928.2007), devoted a large part of his work to the study of the work of Marcel Duchamp, at the invitation of André Breton in 1949, and with the congratulations by Duchamp himself. He published numerous works on the subject from 1974 to 2004. In his first letter to Duchamp, in July 1949, Suquet wrote: “ If I have to write about you and your work, it will not be as a critic but as a poet . » Duchamp replied to him from New York on August 9: “ I completely agree with your project. And as you say, “as a poet” is the only way to say something. »