Lot n° 60
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: 44 800EUR
Leonora Carrington
62 autograph letters signed and 1 typed letter signed to Henri Parisot. 113 pp. in-4 and in-8. Some headers. Mexico City (some from the Bahamas and England), circa 1945-1977 [most undated, some dated between 1970 and 1976]. Approximate spelling.
Long and formidable literary and friendly correspondence, over some thirty years, especially concerning the publication of his works in the collection L'Âge d'or, directed by Henri Parisot at Flammarion [Le Cornet acoustique, La Porte de Pierre, La Débutante...].
Extracts. "It's been more than 2 weeks since I sent you 2 manuscripts in English, Down Below and Open Stone Door. In addition [Benjamin] Péret received a letter from Mabille saying that Michette has already sent the French copy of Down Below. Apart from this you know that it is not necessary to ask for my permission to publish things from me because you know very well that you publish everything you want I don't have contracts anywhere. Another thing published White Rabbits because I don't have anything new now, as soon as I write something I send it out in a hurry. I gave Benjamin your commission he writes to you [...]" [Benjamin Péret lived in Mexico and frequented Leonora Carrington from 1941 to 1948]. She gives news of Wolfgang Paalen and Alice Rahon. "I have told them a lot about you and they are among the only living beings who have remained intact on this continent among us, who continue to seek the marvelous rather than the American millionaires. Paalen has a magazine called "DIN" [DYN] I ask that he send you. Do you know it? I've been told that Breton and his wife are returning to Paris in the spring, and Péret is also vaguely agitating to return in that direction - I suppose then the flag of the Pontifical will still be waving on the central tower of the 2 magots. Kiss Leonor [Fini] for me. What is his address? [...]. I was happy to know that you corrected the text written by Michette. Actually I had a copy in French here from her and I found the style so constipated and pinched that I was really ashamed to send it to you. It was corrected, I believe, by Benjamin but it is still a very awkward style. We have also received the Quatre Vents of which I congratulate you warmly it is the first review which makes me some joy for a long time. Wonderful the eye without eyelid and Fealhered Friends which was one of my favorite tales since I was a little girl [...]" "Here in Mexico I feel strangled and I know that if you don't take care the climate of the beings poisons you. So I try to make paintings but basically I think I'm going to embroider stuffed characters (kind of dolls). The embrace of gatism as a last effort. In the absolute realization that the plague of humans (a plague of the Soul unique to men) obliges them to kill the planet with bullshit I made nineteen plum puddings so heavy that three and a quarter centimeters is enough to make a person with average hunger sick [...]. I meditate sadly on the state of my intestine. I have a shitty vision. I think: this is not Notre Dame de Paris, this is not my Father, this is not Grandma, this is The Shit - fragment of truth. I recoil repulsed (in the animic space). The vision of shit persists now visibly full of intestinal parasites. I look, then, at the shit with calm. Scientist (?) I feel enlightened. Any body can manifest itself. I am invisible, basically. I must not be so distressed to be a thing too [...]"
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