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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> My first visit to “Midi le Juste” in Hout de Cagnes where Ren? Gaffe lived after he left Brussels in 1956 dates to shortly after his death in 1968. Jane Gaffe lived there. with the very same decor as had been when her husband was alive and that she never changed even after his death. She even declined to lend any of the works to exhibitions right up to her own death in October 2000 The tribal art objects and works from the twentieth century formed a watchful circle around Jone just as they had done around both of them. Here they lived with one another under the fixed stares of the Jeune Femme romaine and the Dryade by Picasso. It seemed to me that these two “mirrors” watched their owners carefully whilst exchanging a look of connivance with the Easter Island ancestor figure (Moai Kava-Kovo) Ren? Gaffe collected throughout his life although in his younger years he frequently had to sell for financial reasons. He often recounted that due to this lack of funds he was sadly unable to buy Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Rene Gaff?’s encounter with the Surrealist poets brought him much joy. A strong and intimate bond developed between them and this relationship would greatly influence his adventures in collecting paintings objects and sculpture In a letter to Ren? Gaffe dated 6 November 1933 Paul Eluard wrote: We [Andr? Breton and Paul Eluard) will always remember your militant friendship passion for everything that we love. (SP)