Jacques PRÉVERT (1900-1977). MANUSCRIT autograph signed "J.P - Lot 157

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Jacques PRÉVERT (1900-1977). MANUSCRIT autograph signed "J.P - Lot 157
Jacques PRÉVERT (1900-1977). MANUSCRIT autograph signed "J.P.", Dans la rue Visconti, with dedication "to Jean-Pierre Maury by friend Jacques Prévert May 1966); 1 page large in-fol. and 1 page in-4. Poem in prose, dedicated to the sculptor and moulder Jean-Pierre MAURY (born 1932). It was used as a preface to the booklet of the exhibition Le Bestiaire magique et les Hubertins de Jean-Pierre Maury at the gallery 3+2, located at 5 rue Visconti, in June 1966, with some variations. It was collected in 1984 in La Cinquième Saison. The manuscript has some erasures and corrections. "Ludovico Tullio Gioachino Visconti (1791-1853) built the tomb of Napoleon I at Les Invalides. After his death, he was given a street, a posthumous bargaining chip. For a tomb a street, for countless tombs an avenue, for a grandiose path a square, an arch and a temple. This currency is still used today. But the sculptures and creations of Jean-Pierre Maury are not recumbent figures, lying in graves, and if they seem to be there as if they were at home, on old wood, old stones near an old well, it is because they also inhabit the street of the Marais Saint-Germain, laid out on marshes a year or two before the death of Paracelsus [] The bestiary of superstitions has its dreams, the menagerie of religions, its cages. A lantern, any lantern, is magic, the most beautiful candle is just pretending. This is why the finger of return designates as well the invisible death, the big Prostitute and the small one, as it announces the passage of the sirens and draws the attention on the floating serenity of the Hubertins of Jean-Pierre Maury. [] All the offspring of art are not born coiffed, and the presaged, the denatured. as the entrenatured have their charms, their uncertain and troubling beauty ".
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