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Paul Éluard

France (1895—1952)
Born into a wealthy family, the young Éluard studied at the École Supérieur de Colbert but soon after he contracted tuberculosis and had to be hospitalised near Davos. There he met Helena Diakonova, a Russian young lady, who he named Gala, and married her in 1918. Two days later he left to join the front again but continued to write and published Duty and Anxiety and Little Poems for Peace. The following year he met André Breton, Philippe Soupault and Louis Aragon, who started the journal Littérature. He and Gala entertained a close relationship with Max Ernst until Éluard suddenly left in 1924 and soon after separated from Gala. Éluard started to travel through Europe and became close friend with Man Ray and Picasso. With the latter he witnessed the Spanish civil war and wrote the Victory of Guernica. In 1939 he was mobilised and had to move to Paris. During the WWII he worked with other writers on the book The Honors of Poets. In 1947 he published Le temps déborde in memory of his second wife Nusch. He spent his last years as a delegate of the Council for World Peace until his death in 1952.

Les malheurs des immortels

Illustrated book / 21.7 x 32.8 cm / 1922 (1945) / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Calendrier 20

Magazine / 22.9 x 19.5 cm / Paris, 1919 (1978)

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Dadameter

Die Schammade / Magazine / Letterpress with woodcuts / 22.9 x 29.4 cm / Berlin, 1920 (1984) / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany

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Bulletin Dada

Journal / Letterpress / 27.9 x 37.8 cm / Paris, 1920 (1970)

Projecteur

Magazine / Letterpress / 22.9 x 9.9 cm / Paris, 1920 (1970)

Ça Ira!

Revue mensuelle d’art et de critique / Magazine / Letterpress / 22 x 28.5 / 14 x 22 / Antwerp, 1920-1923 (1973)

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Proverbe

Feuille mensuelle pour la justification des mots / Journal / Letterpress / 13.9 x 21.4 cm / Paris, 1920-1921 (2008)

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Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution

Journal / Letterpress / 20 x 28.5 cm / Paris, 1930-1933 (2002)

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À toute épreuve

Illustrated book / 75 woodcuts and collagraphs and 5 woodcuts / 25.4 x 32.6 cm / Geneva, 1958 (1984) / © 2020 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Paris des rêves

Photographic book / Heliogravure / 22 x 28.2 cm / Lausanne, 1950 / © 1950, La Guilde du Livre, Lausanne

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Action

Cahiers de philosophie et d’art / Magazine / Letterpress / 19.5 x 24.5 cm / Paris, 1920-1922 (1999)

Cannibale 1

Magazine / Letterpress / 15.7 x 23.9 cm / Paris, 1920 (1993) / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Le coeur à barbe

Journal / Letterpress and relief on two folded sheets / 14 x 23 cm / Paris, 1922 (1970) / © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Succession Marcel Duchamp

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Dieu nous aide et fait pousser le caca / Magazine / Letterpress / 32.6 x 49.2 cm / Paris, 1924 (1993) / © Francis Picabia c/o Sabam, 2020

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Bleu

Magazine / Letterpress / 25 x 37 cm / Mantova, 1920-1921 (1970)

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Cannibale 2

Magazine / Letterpress / 15.7 x 23.9 cm / Paris, 1920 (1993) / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Au pluriel / Magazine / Letterpress / 37.8 x 57.3 cm / Paris, 1920 (1993) / © Francis Picabia c/o Sabam, 2020

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