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125 - Henri MICHAUX. Bust portrait of a man. No place or date [circa 1934–1935]. Original two-tone watercolor on paper, signed (15.6 x 11.5 cm), framed.
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Henri MICHAUX. Bust portrait of a man. No place or date [circa 1934–1935]. Original two-tone watercolor on paper, signed (15.6 x 11.5 cm), framed. A beautiful original watercolor: on the reverse, it bears a precious autograph inscription: “To Paul Éluard, H. Michaux.” Paul Éluard holds a special place in Michaux’s literary pantheon. He paid tribute to him on several occasions, notably in *L’Avenir de la poésie*, praising his poems as “dreamlike, and of the most delicate kind.” “Michaux always distinguished him from the rest of the Surrealists, particularly from Breton and Aragon. […] In a certain sense, Éluard seems to represent for Michaux the image of the poet—in part traditional—from whom he diverges, yet whose lyricism and sensitivity he respects. Exchanges of books attest to the mutual regard between the two men” (Michaux, *Complete Works I*, Pléiade, p. 1382).
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Henri Michaux, the Sven Pitseys CollectionAuction house
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