Autographed card signed to Jean Suquet.
A page in-12° on the back of a map depicting the entrance to the Château de Trécesson. (Paimpol. September 1949).
Interesting letter from Breton regarding the research carried out by Suquet on Marcel Duchamp.
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André Breton (1896.1966).
Autographed card signed to Jean Suquet.
A page in-12° on the back of a map depicting the entrance to the Château de Trécesson. (Paimpol. September 1949).
Interesting letter from Breton regarding the research carried out by Suquet on Marcel Duchamp.
“My dear friend, I am very eager to see you again and to know where your investigations have led you. I believe you will overcome this stage of doubt you mention concerning puns (usually uttered in conversation and collected by others) and optical discs. I believe all of this is resolved in the highest awareness ever attained of the activity of play (that is where you too will certainly have to look). But I remain delighted that you have undertaken this study. You are entirely qualified to carry it out. This is not only due to the qualities of your mind but to your whole way of being (I cannot explain it). We will be back in Paris around the 17th, perhaps 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 Marcel Duchamp's oeuvre, at the invitation of André Breton in 1949, and with the congratulations of 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 am to write about you and your work, it will not be as a critic but as a poet." Duchamp replied 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 anything. "