UNIK PIERRE: (1909-1945)
UNIK PIERRE: (1909-1945) French surrealist poet, screenwriter and journalist. Unik published his first Surrealist text in the sixth issue of La Révolution surréaliste and participated in ten of the twelve known surrealist sex investigations. A rare illustrated A.L.S., Pierre (and again Pierre Unik in the address at the base of the page), one page, 4to, Gironde, Bordeaux, n.d. (´Samedi 25´), to Janine Kahn (´Ma chère Janine, Ma chère petite Janine´), in French. Unik writes in affectionate terms and commences his letter by asking ´M'aimez-vous toujours?´ (Translation: ´Do you still love me?´), adds that he is expecting to receive a letter from her, and further writes ´Où êtes-vous où êtes-vous m'aimez-vous toujours. Janine ma Janine Janine chère Janine. Je ne peux vous écrire longtemps. Mais je sui votre Pierre je suis votre ami je vis dans votre ombre. Janine mon aimée écrivez-moi, longuement. Vous êtes toujours présente en moi´ (Translation: ´Where are you, where are you, do you still love me? Janine, my Janine, Janine, dear Janine. I cannot write to you at length. But I am your Pierre, I am your friend, I live in your shadow. Janine, my beloved, write to me at length. You are always present within me´). To the lower left quarter of the page Unik has added a Surrealist ink composition featuring a severed hand, the cross-section of which forms an eye emitting a ray of light, extending into an arm through which a fish swims, which in turn links to a female figure in profile, wearing a curious hat. To the verso Unik has added a further ink drawing of a love heart floating on the waves of the ocean as a number of birds fly above. Autograph letters of Unik are rare as a result of the precocious Surrealist´s disappearance in Slovakia at the young age of 36 after having escaped from a prisoner of war camp. VG
Janine Kahn (1904–1972) was the younger sister of André Breton's first wife, Simone Kahn, and married the French novelist and poet Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) in 1928. Queneau's refusal to sever ties with the Kahn family following Breton's divorce from Simone was one of the principal causes of his break with the Surrealist movement, a decisive turning point that led him to pursue an independent literary career and, later, to co-found Oulipo.
UNIK PIERRE: (1909-1945) French surrealist poet, screenwriter and journalist. Unik published his first Surrealist text in the sixth issue of La Révolution surréaliste and participated in ten of the twelve known surrealist sex investigations. A rare illustrated A.L.S., Pierre (and again Pierre Unik in the address at the base of the page), one page, 4to, Gironde, Bordeaux, n.d. (´Samedi 25´), to Janine Kahn (´Ma chère Janine, Ma chère petite Janine´), in French. Unik writes in affectionate terms and commences his letter by asking ´M'aimez-vous toujours?´ (Translation: ´Do you still love me?´), adds that he is expecting to receive a letter from her, and further writes ´Où êtes-vous où êtes-vous m'aimez-vous toujours. Janine ma Janine Janine chère Janine. Je ne peux vous écrire longtemps. Mais je sui votre Pierre je suis votre ami je vis dans votre ombre. Janine mon aimée écrivez-moi, longuement. Vous êtes toujours présente en moi´ (Translation: ´Where are you, where are you, do you still love me? Janine, my Janine, Janine, dear Janine. I cannot write to you at length. But I am your Pierre, I am your friend, I live in your shadow. Janine, my beloved, write to me at length. You are always present within me´). To the lower left quarter of the page Unik has added a Surrealist ink composition featuring a severed hand, the cross-section of which forms an eye emitting a ray of light, extending into an arm through which a fish swims, which in turn links to a female figure in profile, wearing a curious hat. To the verso Unik has added a further ink drawing of a love heart floating on the waves of the ocean as a number of birds fly above. Autograph letters of Unik are rare as a result of the precocious Surrealist´s disappearance in Slovakia at the young age of 36 after having escaped from a prisoner of war camp. VG
Janine Kahn (1904–1972) was the younger sister of André Breton's first wife, Simone Kahn, and married the French novelist and poet Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) in 1928. Queneau's refusal to sever ties with the Kahn family following Breton's divorce from Simone was one of the principal causes of his break with the Surrealist movement, a decisive turning point that led him to pursue an independent literary career and, later, to co-found Oulipo.
