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PIEYRE DE MANDIARGUES André (1909-1991)
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PIEYRE DE MANDIARGUES ANDRÉ (1909-1991).
[Les corps illuminés], Autograph manuscript signed [1965]| 8 leaves in-4 (270 x 210 mm). Black ballpoint pen on bluish paper, recto only, with erasures and additions (paper very slightly faded).
"The simple outline of a woman's body is the first affirmation of the intelligence of life [...]"
Successively titled À la lumière des corps, Catalogue de femmes and La Beauté blanche (titles crossed out on the manuscript) and then Les Corps lumineux, this text finally appeared in 1965 at Mercure de France under the title Les Corps illuminés to accompany 44 photographs by Frédéric Barzilay. It was reprinted in Troisième belvédère in 1971 (pp. 116 to 121).
The writer paints here an eulogy of the woman's body from the cave paintings of prehistory through Mannerism whose paintings "constitute an apology of the woman, an illustration of all the details and all the possibilities of the female body" to Jean Fautrier, "one of the men most furiously in love with women" and finally Man Ray who reveals that the lens and the darkroom were made for the woman's body like the cup for the wine or the arm for the waist". Stressing the talent of Frederic Barzilay, he concludes: "What we ask of photography, and Barzilay's satisfies us, is an original vision, Edenic in a way, prior to the collection of worn-out sensations that constitute our memory, and then, through the image, a transmutation of the vision that is capable of moving us or better striking us".
Attached: The typescript of the same text titled Les Corps illuminés (this last word crossed out and corrected in red pen "illuminés"). 8 sheets in-4 on paper pelure with some autograph corrections in red ballpoint pen.
- COLETTE Sidonie Gabrielle (1873-1954).
L.A.S. "Colette", Saint-Tropez, Le Treille Muscate, s.d., addressed to Misz MARCHAND. 3 pages in-4 in ink on blue paper (folds).
Original envelope enclosed.
"It is already three days since we have been here. From afar we have heard the noise of bombs and cannons that the 14th of July makes here. I refuse to see the people who are in Tropez with their cars, and their boats [...] But I prefer to stay here. The weather is really what you could call the best in the world. Not a cloud in sight, a lively, fresh breeze, a lightness in the air, which I persist in painting for you every year, in the hope that you will come... (I have just read, very quickly, the Life of Jesus by Maurois) There are long rains in spring, so everything is green and young. If you read the paper I just sent to the Journal, don't think that the image of the car, the cat and the dog are quite right! These elite beasts are thrilled. Souci has a way of throwing herself into the sea that is truly extraordinary, she jumps in with legs spread out with an expression of joy and abandonment that I have only seen in her. Butterflies abound. This morning we were having a good walk on the coast road, and we came across a turtle, which was enjoying the dew. As it was likely to take advantage also of the first car I parked it. One sees many of them on the side of Dom, at the time when they suffer, alas, from thirst, in August [...] ".
PIEYRE DE MANDIARGUES ANDRÉ (1909-1991).
[Les corps illuminés], Autograph manuscript signed [1965]| 8 leaves in-4 (270 x 210 mm). Black ballpoint pen on bluish paper, recto only, with erasures and additions (paper very slightly faded).
"The simple outline of a woman's body is the first affirmation of the intelligence of life [...]"
Successively titled À la lumière des corps, Catalogue de femmes and La Beauté blanche (titles crossed out on the manuscript) and then Les Corps lumineux, this text finally appeared in 1965 at Mercure de France under the title Les Corps illuminés to accompany 44 photographs by Frédéric Barzilay. It was reprinted in Troisième belvédère in 1971 (pp. 116 to 121).
The writer paints here an eulogy of the woman's body from the cave paintings of prehistory through Mannerism whose paintings "constitute an apology of the woman, an illustration of all the details and all the possibilities of the female body" to Jean Fautrier, "one of the men most furiously in love with women" and finally Man Ray who reveals that the lens and the darkroom were made for the woman's body like the cup for the wine or the arm for the waist". Stressing the talent of Frederic Barzilay, he concludes: "What we ask of photography, and Barzilay's satisfies us, is an original vision, Edenic in a way, prior to the collection of worn-out sensations that constitute our memory, and then, through the image, a transmutation of the vision that is capable of moving us or better striking us".
Attached: The typescript of the same text titled Les Corps illuminés (this last word crossed out and corrected in red pen "illuminés"). 8 sheets in-4 on paper pelure with some autograph corrections in red ballpoint pen.
- COLETTE Sidonie Gabrielle (1873-1954).
L.A.S. "Colette", Saint-Tropez, Le Treille Muscate, s.d., addressed to Misz MARCHAND. 3 pages in-4 in ink on blue paper (folds).
Original envelope enclosed.
"It is already three days since we have been here. From afar we have heard the noise of bombs and cannons that the 14th of July makes here. I refuse to see the people who are in Tropez with their cars, and their boats [...] But I prefer to stay here. The weather is really what you could call the best in the world. Not a cloud in sight, a lively, fresh breeze, a lightness in the air, which I persist in painting for you every year, in the hope that you will come... (I have just read, very quickly, the Life of Jesus by Maurois) There are long rains in spring, so everything is green and young. If you read the paper I just sent to the Journal, don't think that the image of the car, the cat and the dog are quite right! These elite beasts are thrilled. Souci has a way of throwing herself into the sea that is truly extraordinary, she jumps in with legs spread out with an expression of joy and abandonment that I have only seen in her. Butterflies abound. This morning we were having a good walk on the coast road, and we came across a turtle, which was enjoying the dew. As it was likely to take advantage also of the first car I parked it. One sees many of them on the side of Dom, at the time when they suffer, alas, from thirst, in August [...] ".