Description:
[Paris, circa 1950], (120 x 170 mm), signed in graphite. The proof is signed "Man Ray" in graphite in the lower right-hand corner, and on the back is the poet Char's handwritten note "René Crevel ".This proof is one of several that Man Ray supplied to his close friends in the 50s and 60s. A identical photo proof to this one - but unsigned - appeared in the Breton sale (2003, no. 5106).
Our proof is that of René Char, with a note on the verso in the poet's hand.
Crevel's suicide hit him hard. Years later, he would confess: "Since the death of this precious brother, I have not been able to reread a single one of his works. That's how much I miss him, the brilliance of his presence, the conquests of his thought of which he was prodigal. Of all the men I've known, he was the one who gave away the gold of his nature best and quickest. He didn't share, he gave."
The poet and literary critic Léon-Gabriel Gros castigated good society, which saw the poet's suicide as nothing more than a vulgar news item:… Read More