QUENEAU Raymond. - Lot 156

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QUENEAU Raymond. - Lot 156
QUENEAU Raymond. MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Raymond Queneau", Peinture et Poésie. À propos d'André Marchand, [1946]; 6 pages in-4. This tribute to the painter André MARCHAND (1907-1998) appeared in Les Lettres Françaises of May 17, 1946 (press clipping attached). Queneau describes the art of a painter who "invites us to look at an extraordinary country, which on maps is called Provence, a country which has made many bad poets sing, and silenced more than one stamped tourist, in love with postcards. [...] Marchand will have to accept that his name rhymes with Provence in the vocabulary of people interested in painting, just as Vinci rhymes with Mona Lisa and Picasso with Cubism. But his other paintings should not be overlooked: landscapes of Burgundy, still lifes, and numerous portraits and female nudes. "Eluard simply put these two words side by side (and mouth to mouth): love, poetry, as the title of one of his collections of poems. Part of Marchand's work is also entitled very simply, Love, Painting [...]. That the painter enjoys greater freedom than the poet (a thesis to be discussed) in the development of his language, naturally leads to the fact that it must be even more disconcerting at first sight. The signs he uses are not only graphic, but also coloured"... The first draft manuscript, on the reverse side of typewritten sheets or on the pages of the Gallimard publishing house for the delivery of manuscripts to the production department, shows numerous erasures and corrections; the fifth page is illustrated in the margin with three small ink sketches. Attached typescript, dated 3/5/46, with a dozen autograph corrections (5 p. in-4). This text was included in the catalogue of an exhibition André Marchand, Gemälde at the Kunsthalle Bern in 1948: printed brochure enclosed, illustrated with an original DRAWING with dispatch to Queneau, on the title page: portrait of woman seen in profile, in black pencil (21 x 16.5 cm). Attached is an autograph manuscript of an article on Kay BOYLE's book Avanthier (1937); 1 page in-fol. (38 x 13.2 cm). On the occasion of the publication of Avant-hier [Year before last] by the American Kay Boyle (1902-1992), Queneau evokes two kinds of American writers, "those of the soil (Faulkner and Caldwell as well as Sinclair Lewis and Thomas Wolfe) and those of exile - or voluntary emigration (Henry Miller and Michaël Fraenkel as well as Gertrude Stein - so strangely little known in France) - and Hemingway. Kay Boyle belongs to the exile. Even better - and worse - her novels are about exiles. The model for the novel's main character is D.H Lawrence... This article was published in La Nouvelle Revue Française in May 1937, and later collected in Le Voyage en Grèce (Gallimard, 1973).
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