CYCLE SYSTEMATIQUE DE CONFERENCES

(Breton, Andre)
Dali, Tanguy, Hugo, Ernst, Man Ray, Arp, Duchamp et al.
CYCLE SYSTEMATIQUE DE CONFERENCES SUR LES PLUS RECENTES POSITIONS DU SURREALISME. PROSPECTUS AND SUBSCRIPTION FORM.
Paris: s.p. (the surrealist group), 1935
24 x 15cm, 4pp. Card with serrated reply form. The very scarce prospectus and subscription form for these series of lectures organised by Breton. The lengthy text is a facsimile of Breton's original manuscript and has reproduced drawings in the margins by Dali (2 works), Man Ray (2 works), Domínguez (2 works), Arp (2 works), Ernst (2 works), Tanguy (2 works), Giacometti 3 works), Duchamp, Hugo, and Marcel Jean. The putative lectures included
1) Why I am a Surrealist, by X.X.X;Breton slide show; Dalí, costumed appropriately, will read his poem 'I eat Gala'; Friendly Advice, by Max Ernst.
2) Will Surrealism disappear with bourgeois society? Discourse on ruins by Breton; slide lecture by Dalí based on Millet's 'Angelus' "accompanied by a tragic-atmospheric pantomime" between the male and female figures of the painting.
3) "On poetic evidence" by Eluard with the participation by Arp, Hugnet, Breton, Ernst.
4) Breton on the surrealist situation of the object, and the situation of the surrealist object; Hugnet on everyday life, Tanguy on the ordinary object; "Dalí will present the latest surrealist objects and object-beings... and will explain the surrealist truculence of their mechanisms.".
A very good example of this interesting document which has a couple of small red pen ink lines on the front. This example was once in the collection of Andre Breton and was sourced indirectly from his archives.