Paul Éluard makes a last-minute stand-up to the Parrot couple while reminding his friend of the preparations for the publication of a text by Salvador Dali for the magazine L'Usage de la parole.
850€
Paul Éluard (1895.1952)
Autographed letter signed to Louis Parrot.
One page in-12° on patterned brown paper.
No place or date [late 1939]
"Are you thinking of Dali's text?"
Paul Éluard makes a last-minute stand-up to the Parrot couple while reminding his friend of the preparations for the publication of a text by Salvador Dali for the magazine L'Usage de la parole.
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“Dear friend, We will be unable to visit you on Sunday. What a disaster!… Please come see me sometime next week, if that's alright with you. Otherwise, I will stop by at whatever time and day you choose. We are so sorry for this inconvenience. Please don't be upset with us! With all our best wishes to you both. Paul Eluard. Are you thinking of Dali's text? ”
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Salvador Dali published "Luminous Ideas: We do not eat that kind of light" in issue no. 2 of L'Usage de la parole, in February 1940.