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CHAR RENÉ (1907-1988)

Estimate2 000 - 2 500
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ÉLUARD Paul (1895-1952).
POÈME autograph signed "Paul Eluard", Les amis II, 1937| 1 page in-4.
Prose poem collected in 1947 in Le Livre ouvert. Eluard inscribed the date below his signature: "chez René Char le 19-1-37". The manuscript, on yellow paper, shows erasures and corrections.
Entre la porte et le sommeil de ceux qui, tout à l'heure, ne voulaient pas dormir" ("Between the door and the sleep of those who, just now, did not want to sleep")...
Attached is a L.A.S. from René CHAR, Cannet March 29, 1937, to Irène HAMOIR and her husband Jean SCUTENAIRE (1 page in-8), sending them Eluard's poem: "Toujours à deux pas de la mer, mais le 'printemps' a tendance à faire lever de multiples hypothèques. [...] And here, as a pretext for sleep, is a little poem [...] with all my friendship - it's bigger and better than he is".