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Notes on potential projects.

In particular Poste Restante:
The art object seen as an undelivered letter, held in reserve by the gallery for a recipient whose identity and location are incompletely known.

Collected by Eric Fredericksen
ecfredericksen at gmail dot com

Jul 7
“Boîte Alerte. Missives Lascives.” Catalog for “L’Exposition inteRnatiOnale du Surréalisme,” 1959-1960, Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris. Multiple, housed in green card ‘mailbox’ with lid… containing: illustrated catalog… with texts by Breton, Bellmer, Ray, Arp, Paz, Carrington, Péret, Lebel, et al; 4 original color lithographs… by Miró, Toyen, Max Walter Svanberg and Adrien Dax; … double-sided 45rpm record by Benjamin Péret and Joyce Mansour; a cable from Duchamp; 6 color postcards (Bellmer, Dalí, Gorky, Miró, Svanberg and Clois Trouill); and 9 ‘missives lascives’ (booklets, statements, prints, a stocking), each in various envelope, from Robert Benayoun, Micheline Bounoure, Alain Joubert, Joyce Mansour, Mimi Parent, Octavio Paz, André Pieryre de Mandiargues and ‘XXX’…. —a listing from Ars Libri Ltd. Catalog 150, item 17

“Boîte Alerte. Missives Lascives.” Catalog for “L’Exposition inteRnatiOnale du Surréalisme,” 1959-1960, Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris.

Multiple, housed in green card ‘mailbox’ with lid… containing: illustrated catalog… with texts by Breton, Bellmer, Ray, Arp, Paz, Carrington, Péret, Lebel, et al; 4 original color lithographs… by Miró, Toyen, Max Walter Svanberg and Adrien Dax; … double-sided 45rpm record by Benjamin Péret and Joyce Mansour; a cable from Duchamp; 6 color postcards (Bellmer, Dalí, Gorky, Miró, Svanberg and Clois Trouill); and 9 ‘missives lascives’ (booklets, statements, prints, a stocking), each in various envelope, from Robert Benayoun, Micheline Bounoure, Alain Joubert, Joyce Mansour, Mimi Parent, Octavio Paz, André Pieryre de Mandiargues and ‘XXX’….

—a listing from Ars Libri Ltd. Catalog 150, item 17
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