Le La
€850.00
A rare plaquette of *Le La*, where Breton’s late surrealist voice is pared to crystal. Printed at Alès by P.A.B. in 1961, in a small square format with a stark black wrapper. It includes an original lithograph by Jean Benoît, which condenses the ritual, talismanic mood of the text. The pairing of Breton’s concentrated note and Benoît’s image forms a miniature in which word and image mutually enchant. For bibliophiles this is a model of the French private-press ethos: clean typography, exact pitch, and a minute limitation. This copy is from the Arches issue and bears PAB’s signature.
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Breton, André
Benoît, Jean
Le La
1961 | Alès | Éditions PAB
A choice piece for collectors of PAB and post-war Surrealism; compact, exact, and very scarce.
A rare plaquette of *Le La*, where Breton’s late surrealist voice is pared to crystal. Printed at Alès by P.A.B. in 1961, in a small square format with a stark black wrapper. It includes an original lithograph by Jean Benoît, which condenses the ritual, talismanic mood of the text. The pairing of Breton’s concentrated note and Benoît’s image forms a miniature in which word and image mutually enchant. For bibliophiles this is a model of the French private-press ethos: clean typography, exact pitch, and a minute limitation. This copy is from the Arches issue and bears PAB’s signature.
€850
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In-16 (approx. 16,6 x 13,5 cm)
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One of 50 copies on Arches, signed by the publisher.
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60
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Arches
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The text captures surrealist logic in a single sparkling note: nocturnal, associative, and playfully compelling. Moon, lemon, and cherry slide over one another like dream images to open a space of metamorphosis. Benoît’s lithograph echoes the tension with an emblematic heart/halo device. The diminutive format sharpens the charge—the reader holds a talisman. The plaquette thus enacts Breton’s notion of poetry as a ‘privileged encounter’.
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