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20 - BRETON, André (1896–1966).
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BRETON, André (1896–1966). Autograph POEM signed “André Breton,” *Un homme et une femme absolument blancs* (A Man and a Woman, Absolutely White), 1931; 1 folio-sized page in blue ink on antique laid paper with a tax stamp from the Généralité de Dijon (top of the page slightly frayed). A beautiful Surrealist poem, consisting of 17 verses, included in *Le Revolver à cheveux blancs* (1932), and later reprinted in *La Petite anthologie poétique du surréalisme* edited by George Hugnet (1934). Note: “Deep within the umbrella I see the marvelous prostitutes Their dresses slightly faded near the streetlamp, the color of the woods They carry with them a large piece of wallpaper The kind one can only gaze upon with a heavy heart on the upper floors of a house marked for demolition […] I see their breasts, which are stars upon waves Their breasts in which the invisible blue milk weeps forever.”
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