Description
Enriched with an original watercolor by Espinouze and a letter from Youki Desnos - DESNOS (Robert). De l'érotisme considéré dans ses manifestations écrites et du point de vue de l'esprit moderne. P., Cercle des Arts, [1952], in-12, glossy, filled cover (ex. warped, cover browned). First edition printed at 1310 copies, numbered 1/1200 Alfama. Autograph signed letter from Youki Desnos to the French writer [Gilbert] Stiebel. Copy enriched with an original full-page watercolor (dated 1953 and signed) by Henry Espinouze, Youki Desnos' companion. Model and wife of Foujita, Youki shared the life of the surrealist poet Robert Desnos from December 1931 when Foujita left Paris and entrusted her to his notorious lover. At the time of this study, Robert Desnos, a young surrealist, was at once a poet, an accountant for the Baillière publishing house, an advertising broker and a commissioned writer for the fashion designer and patron Jacques Doucet. In 1923, the latter asked André Breton for a sort of long memorandum of the poetic history he had gone through. As part of this work, the author proposed to his patron the contribution of Robert Desnos to establish a summary of erotic literature.
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Enriched with an original watercolor by Espinouze and a letter from Youki Desnos - DESNOS (Robert). De l'érotisme considéré dans ses manifestations écrites et du point de vue de l'esprit moderne. P., Cercle des Arts, [1952], in-12, glossy, filled cover (ex. warped, cover browned). First edition printed at 1310 copies, numbered 1/1200 Alfama. Autograph signed letter from Youki Desnos to the French writer [Gilbert] Stiebel. Copy enriched with an original full-page watercolor (dated 1953 and signed) by Henry Espinouze, Youki Desnos' companion. Model and wife of Foujita, Youki shared the life of the surrealist poet Robert Desnos from December 1931 when Foujita left Paris and entrusted her to his notorious lover. At the time of this study, Robert Desnos, a young surrealist, was at once a poet, an accountant for the Baillière publishing house, an advertising broker and a commissioned writer for the fashion designer and patron Jacques Doucet. In 1923, the latter asked André Breton for a sort of long memorandum of the poetic history he had gone through. As part of this work, the author proposed to his patron the contribution of Robert Desnos to establish a summary of erotic literature.
