JACOB (Max). - Lot 125

JACOB (Max). Born in Quimper. 1876-1944. Died in Drancy camp. Painter, poet, novelist and essayist, he is, without adhering to it, the precursor of Dadaism and Surrealism. L.A.S. "Max" to Auguste Dupouy. Sanatorium de Kerpape [Morbihan], September 20, 1928. 3 pp. in-8. Envelope with stamp and postmarks. In reply to Auguste Dupouy, Jacob explains: ...Your card has already lived in suitcases, trunks, on the railroad, in the car, and in this wallet where I put the news of friends that one cares about. Every day I've had to write to you, every day has been filled with departures, arrivals and temporary installations. It seems like a thousand years since I sat down to write or paint. I'm taking advantage of an eight-day stay with a doctor friend - who reads you (in brackets) - to give you my provisional address. I can't give you another because I don't know where I live anymore (sic). St Benoît is far from my heart (I don't say from my heart) Paris is big: I've been offered several asylums and I know several hotels there. I'll ask Grasset for Horace myself, and he'll show me friendship. The friendship of a publisher could be a blessing from the Gods, but there's only one God, and this God doesn't care about publishers, who are either francs-macons (sic) or Tartufes (sic)...In 1921, on the advice of a priest friend, Max Jacob moved to Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, where he stayed in a presbytery close to the abbey. Max Jacob's friend Dr. Benoiste-Pilloire ran the Kerpape sanatorium, and a catalog of the exhibition Hommage à Max Jacob, Quimper, is enclosed. Musée des Beaux-Arts. June 17-August 15, 1961. 16 pp. small in-4. The cover is illustrated with a reproduction of a drawing by J. Cocteau.