BELLMER (Hans). - Lot 42

BELLMER (Hans). Born in Kattowittz (Germany). 1902-1975. Surrealist painter, creator of La Poupée. L.A.S. "Hans" to the poet JOË BOUSQUET. Toulouse, January 5, 1948. 1 page large in-4 on pink paper. BELLE LETTRE À SON AMI LE POÈTE JOË BOUSQUET : ...Me voilà de nouveau seul : Nora vient de partir. We were very pleased to see you again: we thank you, including for the anagrams, some of which are first-rate and an important contribution to the ornamental-anagrammatic framework of the "Rose au Coeur violet". Have you found any more?... I'm delighted to have found a printer who has a genuine collection of Romantic and 1900 typefaces! But we still haven't received an estimate, and to think we want to cover the costs by subscription! In this regard, he asks him to remind Christian Durand of his promise ...to subscribe to a front copy and to send the amount to my address? On the other hand, I would be happy if Mme Christian Durand would (sic) decide to have me draw her portrait, as my material anxieties persist. I've just started the engravings for my book with Nora, and I'm realizing to what extent this joy in my work is indispensable for my survival... Thanks to Monestier, he's found a quiet corner where he can work in peace, without feeling cold. The painter composed the anagrammatic poem Rose au cœur violet with Nora Mitrani (surrealist writer and sociologist of Bulgarian origin; after having been Bellmer's companion, she was Julien Gracq's great passion) and Joë Bousquet (published in 1957 in LAnatomie de limage). The poet Joë Bousquet was seriously wounded during the Great War, and was forced to remain bedridden for the rest of his life. His courage won the admiration of his compatriots, poets, writers and artists, with whom he often wrote letters (Ernst, Éluard, Paulhan...). Blanchot and philosopher Gilles Deleuze paid him a heartfelt tribute. The latter saw a similarity between the immanence of the event developed by Bousquet and his concept of life, a coincidence that was noted by Deleuze himself, a great reader of Bousquet.