Letter to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler from Antonin Artaud, 1923.

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Letter to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler from Antonin Artaud, 1923.

In this unpublished letter to Parisian art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Artaud compares Kahnweiler's gallery with those of Léonce Rosenberg, Marcel Bernheim, and Paul Guillaume, and praises paintings displayed by Kahnweiler, notably Juan Gris's La fenêtre, André Masson's Le forêt (1922) and the work of Élie Lascaux.

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Masson, André, 1896-1987

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The French painter André Masson was also a draughtsman, printmaker, illustrator and stage designer. His work played an important role in the development of Surrealism, Abstract expressionism and Automatism. Excluded from the Surrealist group in 1929. He died in 1987. From the description of L'effusion lyrique ou la peinture retrouvée, 1955. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78346176 French painter. From the description of Manuscript, ca. 1945. (Un...

Bernheim, Marcel 18..-19.. compositeur

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Rosenberg, Léonce, 1879-1947

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Art collector, dealer, and publicist who promoted Cubism. From the description of Léonce Rosenberg papers, correspondence relating to Cubism, 1914-1932. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122530619 ...

Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948

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French poet, actor, painter, art critic, and active letter-writer; editor of the Surrealist journal La révolution surréaliste, 1924-1927. From the description of Letter to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler from Antonin Artaud, 1923. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 83603736 ...

Gris, Juan, 1887-1927

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Spanish painter and lithographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified recipient, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870925 Spanish painter. From the description of Letters sent by Juan Gris, 1918-1924. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79630325 ...

Lascaux, Élie, 1888-1968

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Guillaume, Paul, 1891-1934

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Kahnweiler, Daniel-Henry, 1884-1979

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