Lot n° 115
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ROUAULT (Georges). Autograph manuscript entitled "Messieurs - Lot 115
ROUAULT (Georges). Autograph manuscript entitled "Messieurs peintres". 20 ff. in-12 square in a paperback book, numerous erasures and corrections, 2 collars. A COLLECTION OF POEMS ON PAINTERS AND PAINTING, BOTH OLD AND AVANT-GARDE. Georges Rouault dedicated it to André Suarès, who was his friend for more than thirty years and for whom he illustrated in 1939 the poetic collection Passion. IT CONTAINS A DEDICATION POEM TO ANDRÉ SUARÈS AND 29 POEMS numbered from 1 to 26 with three "bis". "André Suarès / having met / a leper painter / loved him for his virtues as an artist / which for others are vices... "(20 lines). - De Profundis": "My shadow in the Night / I did not like to follow during my life... "(9 lines). - "2.": "I loved Bouguereau / I hated the saligots / who see everything in black... "(eight lines). - – « 3. Here is my epitaph": "Here lies Pancrace / de la Bourse-plate" (eight). - "3 [bis]": "This landscape is dull / said the master / to the too docile pupil... "(3 stanzas of 5 lines). - – « 4. The Amazons": "We will also have their Rome Prize / go my little girls said Artemisia ... "(3 quatrains). - 4 bis. Dear Masters": "We are serious! / for the gallery / you need to be dressed up... "(28 lines). - – « 5. Tradition": "I've never been to those blessed countries / where the orange tree of dreams blooms / of Jenny the worker / But Michelangelo had biceps there / Raphael had grace!... "(30 lines). - 6.": "Communing with the great masters of the past / is well within my reach / Leonardo da Vinci visited me last night... "(15 lines). - – « 7. Abdication": "I accuse the dead and the living of having gilded my pill / said Catullus... "(18 lines). - – « 8. Old copyists": "I sometimes get snot in my nose and numb fingers / while copying the Chicks said Castor... "(19 lines). - "8 bis. "Poor Cézanne / couldn't see very well / I let myself say that... "(17 lines, in the margin of a longer primitive version entirely crossed out). Georges Rouault inscribed and then crossed out the title "Le guide familier". - "9.": "Little child Bouguereau loved me very much / I laid all his loves / night and day... " (dozen). - – « 10. The restorer-rentoiler": "From Rembrandt's Scipio I restore the chief... "(2 dimes). - – « 11. Reclamation": "It flies with our own wings / on the tightrope of official art / in the midst of the fireworks / lit by the futurists!... " (17 lines). - "12.": "His name was Croesus / he had no tricks / was bored all the more / but was a modernist... " (38 lines). - – « 13. The Mona Lisa": "See here the nail where she was hung / the queen of Holland said tenderly while contemplating her / how much she resembles me! Is she charming!..." (2 dozen). - – « 14. Actuality and Tradition": "To work with ardour / said Felix all in sweat / I need the legion of honour... "(59 verses in 2 columns). Georges Rouault crossed out his second column in ink and renamed the first column successively "Aveux" and "Confidence" before crossing it out in pencil. - – « 15. Cubic Demonstration": "Every constituted body has four dimensions: height / width depth and thickness... " (14 lines). - "16.": "They are the Shepherds who follow the Star / Ah, no, really, they are touching / these false mystics of decadent art... "(20 lines). - – « 17. The Critic": "Say anything to the customer", said Mr. Satan / whose destiny was to skillfully run the galleries of the Bon Clinquant" (16 lines). - "18.": "The earth is a cube but it spins so fast / that Galileo / that stubborn man / thought it was round... "(2 verses). - 19.": "Sell yourself! / said to me, staring at me with a very black eye / (which sank into my failing heart like a dagger / the old maiden... "(32 lines). - "20.": "Donatello is dangerous, Titian is soft" / said while making me take his tinder / a great trickster of a painter who was too soft... " (28 lines). - – « 21. 21.": "Here he is at last / Ah, how beautiful / He is a zero! / He dances / and sings / and philosophizes / and paints incessantly!... " (23 lines). - – « 22. The Theorist": "I had the good taste to never paint / eh! that's pretty rare!... " (21 BOOKS & AUTOGRAPHS THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2021 140vers). - – « 23. Eclecticism": "I have never understood these battles / where everyone wants to be right / As a child, I loved Paul Delaroche... " (dizain). - – « 24. Gentlemen painters": "They have never, you know, / Aspired to / Consecrations of bad tone / Being shy as little girls... "(33 lines). - 25.": "One day a certain baron / from Barbizon / said to old Corot / "Hein! you love / nature / You owe it everything!... " (18 lines). - – « 26. The painter paints": "No! no! / I won't write anymore / but I'll always paint / night and day... "(10 lines).
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