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QUENEAU Raymond.
Autograph manuscript, "My dear Labisse"..., [1967]| 1 page and a quarter in-4 (27 x 21 cm) in black ink with 3 corrections in blue ballpoint pen.
Tribute to Félix Labisse.
Speech on the occasion of the presentation to the painter Félix LABISSE (1905-1982) of his sword as Academician of Fine Arts, November 7, 1967.
The member of the Académie Goncourt presents "his sword to a member of the Institute. [...] I don't think I am betraying Edmond de Goncourt's will by offering you, on behalf of all of us, a sword rather than a place setting. It is true that if one knows what a place setting is for [...] one may ask: why the sword? It is not, I believe, for painting, although some of our contemporaries paint with a razor. Nor is it to defend yourself against your enemies, my dear Labisse, for you have none.
Queneau evokes Labisse's magical gifts, both in painting and in friendship, and their participation in surrealism: "Here you are at the height of those honours that you and I used to vilify as virulently as Bossuet did in his sermon for the 3rd Sunday of Advent.
[...] Vanity of vanities, but also justice rendered. Justice done to your talent, justice that you yourself will do to others.
Attached is the corrected typescript, and an autograph note, concerning the writing of this induction, Queneau having written two quotations from Bossuet's sermons (5 lines, on the back of a typewritten sheet presenting a poem by the Bulgarian poet Lubomir Levtchev.)
Autograph manuscript, "My dear Labisse"..., [1967]| 1 page and a quarter in-4 (27 x 21 cm) in black ink with 3 corrections in blue ballpoint pen.
Tribute to Félix Labisse.
Speech on the occasion of the presentation to the painter Félix LABISSE (1905-1982) of his sword as Academician of Fine Arts, November 7, 1967.
The member of the Académie Goncourt presents "his sword to a member of the Institute. [...] I don't think I am betraying Edmond de Goncourt's will by offering you, on behalf of all of us, a sword rather than a place setting. It is true that if one knows what a place setting is for [...] one may ask: why the sword? It is not, I believe, for painting, although some of our contemporaries paint with a razor. Nor is it to defend yourself against your enemies, my dear Labisse, for you have none.
Queneau evokes Labisse's magical gifts, both in painting and in friendship, and their participation in surrealism: "Here you are at the height of those honours that you and I used to vilify as virulently as Bossuet did in his sermon for the 3rd Sunday of Advent.
[...] Vanity of vanities, but also justice rendered. Justice done to your talent, justice that you yourself will do to others.
Attached is the corrected typescript, and an autograph note, concerning the writing of this induction, Queneau having written two quotations from Bossuet's sermons (5 lines, on the back of a typewritten sheet presenting a poem by the Bulgarian poet Lubomir Levtchev.)