42 rue Fontaine: L'atelier d'André Breton

Paris, Societé nouvelle Adam Biro, 2003. Softcover, 24 x 30 cm, 40 pp. In paper slipcase. Text in French by Julien Gracq, 14 full-page colour photographs of the magical interior of Breton's studio/apartment by Gilles Ehrmann. Slipcase shows creasing, book in excellent condition.

After André Breton's death, his wife Elisa asked Gilles Ehrmann to compile a photographic inventory of the studio at 42 rue Fontaine. In 1997 the visual report with text by Julien Gracq was released, in a tiny limited edition of 15 copies. In 2003, after Elisa's death, the studio collection was dispersed (Centre Pompidou acquired part of it), and the book was re-released for the public at large. Breton's studio functioned as a 'mental laboratory' displaying an exceptional collection of objects gathered during his travels: pre-Columbian masks, stones, roots, butterfly cases and more. It was also the place were Breton, Éluard, Aragon and De Chirico laid the foundation of Surrealism.