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DESNOS (Robert). *C’est les bottes de 7 lieues.
See original version (French)
69
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DESNOS (Robert). *C’est les bottes de 7 lieues.
See original version (French)
Estimate €3,000 - €4,000
Voluntary lot
Description
DESNOS (Robert). *C’est les bottes de 7 lieues. Cette phrase « Je me vois »*. Paris: Éditions de la Galerie Simon, 1926. In-4, paperback, ivory cover, slipcase. The book is illustrated with four etchings by André Masson, including a frontispiece.
A print run of 112 copies, numbered and signed by the author and the artist; this is one of 90 copies printed on Arches laid paper.
Published in 1926, *C’est les bottes de 7 lieues* bears witness to the close relationship between Robert Desnos and André Masson; in the same year, the poet took over the artist’s studio on Rue Blomet, a hotbed of early Surrealist experimentation.
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1984, p. 186.
See original version (French)
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About the sale
Eros & Thanatos – Selected extracts from the L-D S library
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Auction time
10/07/2026 at 2:00 PM
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