Unnumbered copy of limited first edition of Jean Cocteau's L'ode à Picasso (Paris: La Belle Edition, 1919), heavly annotated by Cocteau. Laid in: business card of Louis Broder, with autograph manuscript note, signed.
Description:
Formerly owned by Louis Broder. Purchased from John McWhinnie on Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2008., Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author and filmmaker., and Title devised by cataloger.
Art, French--20th century, Authors, French--20th century, Gender identity in art, Lesbian artists--France, LGBTQ resource, Photographers--France, Photography, Artistic--France, Surrealism--France, Women photographers, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, French, and World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Channel Islands--Jersey
Art, French--20th century, Authors, French--20th century, Gender identity in art, Lesbian artists--France, LGBTQ resource, Photographers--France, Photography, Artistic--France, Surrealism--France, Women photographers, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, French, and World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Channel Islands--Jersey
Set of page proofs with autograph manuscript corrections for Breton's poem Fata Morgana, including illustrations by Wifredo Lam (25 pages). Accompanied by page proofs of an English translation of the work by Clark Mills with manuscript corrections in an unidentified hand (20 pages).
Description:
André Breton, French writer and poet, was one of the founders of the Surrealist movement., In French., and Purchased from Pierre Berès, on the Plain Fund, 1942.
Subject (Name):
Breton, André,--1896-1966, Lam, Wifredo, and Mills, Clark,--1913-
Subject (Topic):
Authors, French--20th century and French literature--20th century
Collection contains correspondence, writings, and other papers. Correspondence consists of letters to Dunan from writers, editors, friends, and others including Louis Artus, Jean Bouchary, Rodolphe Bringer, André Coeuroy, Paul Louis Couchoud, Henry D. Davray, Pierre Dominique, Gustave Geffroy, Henri Guilac, Maurice Hamel, Charles Hennebois, René Jouglet, René Kieffer, Albert Lantoine, Paul Laffitte, René Maran, Victor Margueritte, Jacques Natanson, Pierre Rives, Edmond Rocher, Guillermo de Torre, and Octave Uzanne. Writings consists of numerous short drafts, corrected. Other papers include a small quantity of clippings, financial records, manuscript fragments, and printed ephemera.
Description:
Purchased from Les Amazones on the Edith and Richard French Fund, 2009. and Renée Dunan, French author and poet.
Reynaldo Hahn letters to René Peter and related papers
Container / Volume:
Box 2 | 16-20
Image Count:
141
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Circa 200 autograph letters, signed, from Hahn to Peter, 1899-1947 and undated (Boxes 1-2), concerning their friendship, Hahn's music and music of others, and Peter's writings, and referring to Claude Debussy, André Messager, and other musicians and authors. Many letters are written as poems. Also present are single letters from Hahn to Gabriel Monod, 1898, and to Hahn from Georges Feydeau and Jeanne Granier, undated. and Related papers (Box 2), consist of additional poems by Hahn, typescript, 1946 and undated; a Proust questionnaire, printed, completed in holograph by Hahn, 1900 December; a scenario for a film titled Découvertes, by Hahn and Peter, typescript with corrections, undated; and a photograph of Peter, annotated by Hahn, undated.
Description:
Purchased from Les Autographes on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2008., René Peter, French author and son-in-law of André Messager., and Reynaldo Hahn, French composer, conductor, and author.
Reynaldo Hahn letters to René Peter and related papers
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | 1-15
Image Count:
474
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Circa 200 autograph letters, signed, from Hahn to Peter, 1899-1947 and undated (Boxes 1-2), concerning their friendship, Hahn's music and music of others, and Peter's writings, and referring to Claude Debussy, André Messager, and other musicians and authors. Many letters are written as poems. Also present are single letters from Hahn to Gabriel Monod, 1898, and to Hahn from Georges Feydeau and Jeanne Granier, undated. and Related papers (Box 2), consist of additional poems by Hahn, typescript, 1946 and undated; a Proust questionnaire, printed, completed in holograph by Hahn, 1900 December; a scenario for a film titled Découvertes, by Hahn and Peter, typescript with corrections, undated; and a photograph of Peter, annotated by Hahn, undated.
Description:
Purchased from Les Autographes on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2008., René Peter, French author and son-in-law of André Messager., and Reynaldo Hahn, French composer, conductor, and author.
Papers relating to World War II (in boxes 1-2) include copies of resistance propaganda, undated; letters and notes concerning the imprisonment of Cahun and Malherbe, 1943-1945 and undated; holograph memoir notes by Malherbe, undated; and a typescript memoir by Cahun and Malherbe, undated. and The Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe Papers consist of holograph and typescript writings by Cahun; memoirs, correspondence, and notes relating to their experiences during World War II; and a small amount of other correspondence and copies of photographs by Cahun.
Description:
Claude Cahun, born Lucy Schwob, was a French photographer, artist, and author. Cahun was associated with the Surrealist movement, and her photography and writings addressed issues of gender identity. In 1937 she moved to Jersey in the Channel Islands with her partner Suzanne Malherbe, an illustrator who adopted the name Marcel Moore. Cahun and Malherbe were active in the resistance during the German occupation of Jersey during World War II. They were imprisoned and sentenced to death in 1944, but were liberated at the end of the war. and Formerly owned by Basil Bigg. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2009.
Subject (Geographic):
Jersey (Channel Islands)
Subject (Name):
Bigg, Basil--Ownership and Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954
Subject (Topic):
Authors, French--20th century, Gender identity in art, Lesbian artists--France, LGBTQ resource, Photographers--France, Surrealism--France, Women photographers, and World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Jersey
This collection consists principally of photographic prints of Barney at various ages: as a teenager; as a young woman in Victorian attire and in riding gear; with Gabriele d'Annunzio; with Romaine Brooks; with unidentified friends; and by herself at age 48. Also included are: a photographic postcard addressed to "Chère Rachilde"; an inscribed calling card; and a copy of a book of poems by Louis Emié ("Hauts Desirs Sans Absence" Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1953), inscribed to Barney, with a letter from Barney to Emié.
Alternative Title:
[Photograph of Natalie Barney standing and holding a flower]
Description:
Natalie Barney was a poet, playwright, novelist and essayist, whose salon in Paris, while serving as a gathering point for writers in general, aimed to promote the writings of women. and Purchased from David J. Holmes on the Danforth N. Barney, Jr. Fund, 1996
Subject (Name):
Barney, Natalie Clifford, D'Annunzio, Gabriele,--1863-1938, and Emié, Louis,--1900-
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century, Authors, French--20th century, and Women authors, French
