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JACOB Max (1876–1944). 4 autograph manuscripts; 1 page in-4 …
See original version (French)
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JACOB Max (1876–1944). 4 autograph manuscripts; 1 page in-4 …
See original version (French)
Estimate €500 - €600
Voluntary lot
Description
JACOB Max (1876–1944).
4 autograph manuscripts; 1 page in-4 each.
Description:
Three poems and a meditation. ‘La lettre de la demoiselle’, 5 quatrains, numbered and renumbered (the top of the page – a letter of which only a few words and the signature remain – has been torn off), with the note in red pencil: ‘given to Nicolas’. ‘Come back again despite my letter Which a demon wrote for me You’ll come in through the window If you don’t have the key to the house’… Untitled poem, consisting of 5 tercets: ‘ Your eyes closed, your weary hand, Your hand that glides Over the slate sundial”… The final line: “My love for you, Léonor” has been crossed out and replaced with “The presence of God whom I adore”. 75839+75840
Reply to Manon, a very carefully worked-on draft of this 19-line poem included in *L’Homme de cristal* (1946); on the reverse, a drawing of a man running. ‘I am the old Rampart who sings at high tide, The eternal survivor, the spinning top of the Most High’… Draft of a prose meditation, with a few small sketches in the text, and on the reverse bearing the title *Meditation on the Removed Gown*. ‘You have run the flame of the blowtorch between my ribs, the demons’ whip. Ouch, oh oh, the blood is flowing’…
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