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The occultation of : a study of the relationship between Bretonian Surrealism and western esotericism

Bauduin, T.M.

Publication date 2012

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Citation for published version (APA): Bauduin, T. M. (2012). The occultation of Surrealism: a study of the relationship between Bretonian Surrealism and western esotericism. Elck Syn Waerom Publishing.

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I. André Masson, Portrait of André Breton, 1941. Ink on paper, 485 x 625 mm. Masson Collection, , . II. ‘Erutarettil’, Littérature 11-12 (1923): 24-5. , Musée nationale d’art moderne, Paris. III. , Self-portrait with plucked eye, 1931. Oil on canvas,220 x 162 mm. Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris. © ADAGP, Paris, 2010. IV. , Men shall know nothing of this, 1923. Oil on canvas, 803 x 638mm. Tate, Tate Liverpool, © ADAGP, Paris and DACS,London 2002. V. Hélène Smith, Écriture martienne, 1897. Pen on paper, dimensions unknown. T. Flournoy, Des Indes à la Planète Mars, 1900. Public domain. VI. Hélène Smith, Paysage martien, s.d. Watercolours on paper, 229 x 174 mm. Gérard Lévy Collection, Paris. VII. Victor Brauner, Hélène Smith, 1941 (‘Siren of locks/knowledge’ from the Jeu de Marseille; final design). Black and coloured pencils and crayons on tracing paper, 274 x 181 mm. Owner unknown. VIII. , dans l’atelier d’André Breton (époque des sommeils), 1922. Gelatin silver print, 239 x 299 mm. The Museum of , . Gift of James Thrall Soby. IX. Man Ray, Photographie de groupe à la Centrale surréaliste, 1924 Gela- tin silver print, 113 x 830 mm. Private Collection, Paris. X. Paul Nougé, The harvests of sleep, ca. 1929-30. From the serie Subver- sion des images, 1929-30. Gelatin silver print, modern print of the origi- nal negative, 200 x 200 mm. Archives et musée de la literature,Bruxelles. © SOFAM – Belgium, 2010. XI. Man Ray, Photomontage of ’s eyes, s.d. Breton, Nadja (1964): 129.© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2003. XII. Jacques-André Boiffard, Bois Charbons, 1927. Breton, Nadja (1964): 30. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2003. XIII. Les yeux fermés (Enquète sur l’amour), 1929. La Révolution Surréaliste 12 (1929): 73. Photomatons of the Surrealists, reproduction of an oil painting on canvas by René Magritte, 295 x 410 mm. Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris. XIV. La femme est l’être…, 1924. La Révolution Surréaliste 1 (1924): 17. Pho- tographs of various Surrealists and others, 293 x 40 mm. Centre Pompi- dou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris.

ix XV. René Magritte, Je ne vois pas la [femme] cachée dans le fôret (La femme cachée), 1929. Oil on canvas, 730 x 540 mm. Private collection. © AD- AGP, Paris, 2005. XVI. André Masson, Novalis, 1941 (‘ Magician of flames/love’ from the Jeu de Marseille; second design). Gouache, indian ink and crayon on paper, 279 x 167 mm. Musée Cantini, Marseille. © ADAGP Paris, 2005. XVII. Photographer unknown, Installation view of the 1947 Surrealist exhi- bition, with David Hare, Anguished Man (1947) and Miro, Cascade of Superstitions(1947), 1947. Photograph, dimensions unknown. Owner unknown. XVIII. Victor Brauner, The Lovers, 1947. Oil on canvas, 920 x 730 mm. Cen- tre Pompidou, Musée nationale d’art moderne, Paris. © ADAGP Paris, 2011.

1. ‘Notre collaborateur Benjamin Péret injuriant un prêtre,’ s.d. Photogra- pher unknown. La Révolution Surréaliste 8 (1926): 13. 2. Henry de Malvost, Les incubes et les succubes, 1894-5. Jules Bois, Le Satanisme et la magie (1895): 285. 3. Hands of André Derain, André Breton, Aldous Huxley, Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, and , 1934-5. Illustrations to Wolff, L., ‘Les révélations psychiques de la main’, 6 (1935): 38-44, spec. 42-44. 4. Jean Baptiste Belot, Position of the Signs of the Zodiac in the Hand, illustration from Oeuvres (1640). Reproduced in Grillot de Givry, Witch- craft (2009): 267, fig. 244. 5. André Corvo, Saturnian Line, illustration from L’Art de Chyromance (1545). Reproduced in Grillot de Givry, Witchcraft (2009): 268, fig. 245. 6. André Corvo, Double Mercurian Line, illustration from L’Art de Chyro- mance (1545). Reproduced in Grillot de Givry, Witchcraft (2009): 269, fig. 247. 7. Baquet mesmer, end of the 18th century. Wood, metal and glass, di- mensions unknown. Musée d’Histoire de Médecine et de la Pharmacie, Lyon, France. 8. Eugène Thiebault, Henri Robin et un spectre, 1863. Albumen paper print, 229 x 174 mm. Collection of Gérard Lévy, Paris. 9. Persons under influence of magnetism (with Mesmer tub), end of 18th century. Pijaudier-Cabot and Faucherau, L’Europe des esprits (2011):

x 355. 10. André Brouillet, Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière, 1887. Oil on canvas, 300x 4250 mm. Université Descartes Paris, France. 11. Dr. Caligari feeding Césare, 1920. Filmstill, from Wiene, Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari (1920). 12. Césare, 1920. Filmstill, from Wiene, Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari (1920). 13. Caligari, 1920. Filmstill, from Wiene, Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari (1920). 14. George du Maurier, Svengali hypnotising Trilby, 1894. Engraving, du Maurier, Trilby (1894): 395. 15. ‘Attitudes passionelles’ (Augustine), 1928. Aragon & Breton, ‘Le Cinquan tenair de l’hystérie, 1878-1928’, La Révolution Surréaliste 11 (1928): 20- 2. Photographs orginally from Bourneville & Regnard under de direction of Charcot, Iconographie Photographique, vol. II. 1877-1880. Centre Pompidou, Musée nationale d’art moderne, Paris. 16. Max Ernst, Oedipus Rex, 1922. Oil on canvas, 930 x 1020 mm. Private Collection. 17. Portrait of Mme Sacco, s.d. Artist and dimensions unknown. Breton, Na- dja (1964): 91. 18. La Révolution Surréaliste 1 (1924), cover. Photographs by Man Ray. 293 x 205 mm. Centre Pompidou, Musée d’art moderne, Paris. 19. Henri Mairet, Séance avec Eusapia Palladino chez Camille Flammarion, rue Cassini, 25 novembre 1898, 1898. Gelatin silver print, 222 x 283 mm.© Rue des Archives / The Granger Collection. 20. Man Ray, Je revois maintenant Robert Desnos…, ca. 1922-24. Breton, Nadja (1964): 34. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2003. 21. Victor Hugo, Aube, ca. 1853. Automatic or spiritualist drawing made by the hand of Victor Hugo, pencil on paper, dimensions unknown. Re- produced by André Breton in ‘Le Message Automatique, Minotaure 3-4 (1933): 55. 22. , Man Ray, , and Joan Miró, Untitled, 1927 (‘Ca- davre exquis’). Pencil, india ink and crayon on paper, 360 x 230 mm. Private Collection. © ADAGP, Paris 2010. 23. Max Ernst, Oedipus, 1931; cover of Cahier d’art, Max Ernst special is- sue (1937), Paris. Pencil and watercolours on cardboard, dimensions un- known. Marzona Collection. 24. August Natterer (pseud. August Neter), Miracle Shepherd, ca. 1911-13. Pencil on paper, varnish, 244 x 195 mm. Prinzhorn Collection, Heidel- berg. 25. ‘Mme Fondrillon’, ‘mediumistic drawing obtained by Mme Fondrillon,

xi medium draughtswoman, in her 79th year, Paris, March 1909’, 1925. La Révolution Surréaliste 4 (1925): 1. Dimensions unknown. Centre Pompidou,Musée nationale d’art moderne, Paris. 26. Nadja (Léona Delcourt), Self-portrait, 1927. Breton, Nadja (1964): 144. 27. Nadja (Léona Delcourt), The lover’s flower, 1927. Breton, Nadja (1964): 139. 28. Nadja (Léona Delcourt), The shield of Achilles, 1927. Breton, Nadja (1964): 147. 29. Page-spread from Breton, ‘’, Minotaure 3-4 (1933): 64-65. Dimensions unknown. Centre Pomidou, Musée nationale d’art moderne, Paris. 30. Victorien Sardou, Mozart’s house on Jupiter, 1850-1857. Etching, 360 x 440 mm. The Israel Museum, Jeruzalem. 31. Ferdinand “the postman” Cheval, Prospectus pour le Palais Idéal, con- struit de 1879 à 1912, Hauterives (Drôme). Thévoz, L’Art Brut (1975): 35. 32. Man Ray and André Breton, Title to ‘Le Message Automatique’, 1933. Indian ink and gelatin silver prints pasted on paper, 113 x 435 mm. Col- lection of Loïc Malle, Paris. 33. Jacques-André Boiffard, Boulevard Magente, devant le Hôtel Sphinx, ca. 1928. Breton, Nadja (1964): 121. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, Lon- don 2003. 34. Brassai, Le Tour St Jacques à nuit, 1932-33. Gelatin silver print, 290 x 220 mm. Centre Pompidou, Musée nationale d’art moderne, Paris. © ADAGP, Paris 2011. 35. , The child’s brain, 1914. Oil on canvas, 800 x 650 mm. Moderna Museet, Stockhom, © Giorgio de Chirico/BUS 2010. 36. Giorgio de Chirico, The enigma of the day, 1914. Oil on canvas, 185,5 x 139,7cm. MOMA/James Thrall Soby Bequest. © 2012 (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome. 37. Man Ray, Eye, 1934. Cropped version of Larmes, ca. 1933. Gelatin silver print, 225 x 286 mm. Private Collection. © ADAGP, Paris, 2012. 38. Man Ray and Max Ernst, La femme visible, 1925. Pencil drawing upon gelatine silver print, 390 x 550 mm. Private Collection. 39. Man Ray, / Indestructible object, 1923, remake 1959. Metronome and pasted photograph, 222 x 20 x 110 mm. Cen- tre Pompidou, Musée nationale d’art moderne, Paris. © ADAGP, Paris, 2012. 40. Woman with closed/painted eyes (Kiki de ), 1926. Film- still. Man Ray, Emak Bakia, 1926. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London

xii 2010. 41. Woman with opened eyes (Kiki de Montparnasse), 1926. Film-still. Man Ray, Emak Bakia, 1926. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2010. 42. Opening shot, 1926. Film-still. Man Ray, Emak Bakia, 1926. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London, 2010. 43. Eye scene, 1929. Film-still. Buñuel & Dali, , 1929. 44. Eye scene, second part, 1929. Film-still. Buñuel & Dali, Un Chien An- dalou, 1929. 45. Giorgio de Chirico, The premonitions of Apollo, 1914. Oil and char- coal on canvas, 815 x 65 mm. Centre Pompidou, Musée nationale d’art moderne, Paris. © ADGAP Paris, 2012. 46. Victor Brauner, Le monde paisible, 1927. Ink and wash on paper, 172 x 115 mm. Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris. © ADAGP, Paris, 2005. 47. Salvador Dali, The lugubrious game, 1929. Oil on canvas, 444 x 303 mm. Private Collection. 48. Jindrich Štyrský, Untitled photomontage, 1933. Photographs cut out and pasted, 209 x 177 mm. MACBA – Fundació Museum d’Art Conte- morani, Barcelona. 49. André Breton, Autoportrait: L’écriture automatique, 1938. Gelatin silver prints, photomontage, 140 x 100 mm. Israel Museum, Jeruzalem. 50. Plate 1 from Livre d’Abraham Juif with Mercury and Time, 17th century. Bibliothèque Nationale, MS.Fr.14765; Documents 5 (1929): 235. 51. Cover of Le Surréalisme au Service de la Révolution 1 (1930), with logo. Cardboard, dimensions unknown. Centre Pompidou, Musée nationale d’art moderne, Paris. 52. Rogi André, dans un aquarium, 1934. Gelatin silver print, 117 x 223 mm. Bibliothèque nationale de France, départment des estampes et photographies. 53. Giacometti, Invisible Object, 1934. Bronze, 1521 x 326 x 253 mm. Mu- seum of Modern Art, New York © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York /ADAGP, Paris. 54. Joan Míro, cover of Minotaure 7 (1935). Materials and dimensions un- known. 55. René Magritte, cover of Minotaure 10 (1937). Materials and dimensions unknown. 56. Max Ernst, cover of Minotaure 11 (1938). Materials and dimensions un- known. 57. André Masson, Gradiva, 1939. Oil on canvas, 970 x 1300 mm. Musée

xiii Nationale d’Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou, Paris. © 2012 ADAGP, Par- is. 58. , ‘Variations sur le montage d’une mineure articulée’ (‘Pou- pée’), Minotaure 6 (1934-5): 30-1. Photographs by Hans Bellmer, 315 x 490 mm. Centre Pompidou, Musée nationale d’art moderne, Paris. 59. Man Ray, Mannequin de , Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, 1938. Photograph, dimensions unknown. Owner unknown. 60. Man Ray, Mannequin de Joan Miró, Exposition Internationale du Surré- alisme, 1938. Photograph, dimensions unknown. Owner unknown. 61. Victor Brauner, Loup table (Wolf Table), 1939-1947. Wood and parts of a stuffed fox, 540 x 570 x 285 mm. Centre Pompidou, Musée nationale d’art moderne, Paris.© 2012 ADAGP, Paris. 62. , Alice, 1940 (‘Siren of stars/dreams’ from the Jeu de Mar- seille; final design). Pencil and crayon on paper, 326 x 251 mm. Musée Cantini, Marseille. © ADAGP Paris, 2005. 63. Breton, Paracelsus, 1941 (‘Magician of locks/knowledge’ from the Jeu de Marseille; second design). Indian ink, pencil and watercolours on paper, ca. 275 x 176 mm. Musée Cantini, Marseille. © ADAGP Paris, 2005. 64. Jacques Hérold, , 1941 (‘Genius of wheels/revolution’ from the Jeu de Marseille; second design). Indian ink, pencil and wa- tercolours on paper, ca. 275 x 176 mm. Musée Cantini, Marseille. © ADAGP Paris, 2005. 65. Marseille Tarot: L’étoile (The Star), s.d. Image in the public domain. 66. , 17. Les étoiles, 1943. Lithograph, dimensions un- known. Whereabouts of original unknown. Breton, Arcane 17 (1945), separate insert. 67. Anonymous, The Hermetic Androgyne, 17th century. Miniature from Dritter Pittagorischer Sinodas von der Verborgenen Weisheit (originally in colour). Grillot de Givry, Witchcraft (2009): frontispiece. 68. André Breton, De la survivance de certains mythes: l’âme-soeur (page- spread with Balzac’s Séraphita), 1942. Breton, De la survivance (1988), 18. 69. Installation view of the 1947 Surrealist exhibition with Etienne Martine, Totem for All Religions, 1947. 70. Installation view of the 1947 Surrealist exhibition with Frederick Kiesler, Anti-Taboo Figure, ca. 1946-47. 71. Jacques Hérold, The Great Transparent One, 1947. Cast in bronze in the 1970s, 1850 x 800 x 520 mm. Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, Paris.

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