INVENTORY OF THE YVES POUPARD-LIEUSSOU CORRESPONDENCE AND
COLLECTED PAPERS ON DADA AND SURREALISM, 1905-1984 (bulk,
1956-1979)
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Busuioceanu
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INVENTORY OF THE YVES POUPARD-LIEUSSOU CORRESPONDENCE AND
COLLECTED PAPERS ON DADA AND SURREALISM, 1905-1984 (bulk
1956-1979)
Accession no. 930004
Finding aid prepared by Lesley Heins Walker and Onica
Busuioceanu
Getty Research Institute
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Yves Poupard-Lieussou correspondence and
collected papers on Dada and Surrealism
Dates: 1905-1984
Dates: 1956-1979
Collection number: 930004
Collector:
Poupard-Lieussou,
Yves
Extent:
6 linear ft.
(11
boxes)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA
90049-1688
Abstract: French scholar of Dada and surrealism, and vice president of the Association pour l'Étude de Dada et du Surréalisme. Collection
consists of correspondence received by Poupard-Lieussou from artists, writers, publishers, critics, and scholars, mainly 1956-1979.
Includes bio-bibliographic notes, drawings, photographs, printed materials, and manuscripts (some unpublished or rare texts)
given to Poupard by his correspondents or sometimes hand-copied by himself.
Language: Collection material in French, German and English
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Yves Poupard-Lieussou correspondence and
collected papers on Dada and Surrealism,
1905-1984 (bulk 1956-1979), Getty Research
Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 930004.
Acquisition Information
The archive was acquired in 6 separate acquisitions between 1993
and 1996: accession nos. 930004, 930022, 930040, 930065, 950070 and 960086.
Processing History
Scott Wolf arranged and described the Raoul Hausmann materials in
early 1995. Lesley Heins Walker cataloged the remaining portion of the
collection acquired before 1996, and joined it with the Hausmann papers in
December 1995 when all the accessions were merged to form one collection under
Accn. no. 930004. The finding aid was compiled by Lesley Heins Walker. In
November 1996, a new acquisition (accn. no. 960086) added ca. 1.3 linear ft. of
correspondence, manuscripts, publications and photographs to this collection.
The material was organized and cataloged by Onica Busuioceanu, who also
inserted the corresponding descriptions into the finding aid in February
1998.
Separated Material
The following items were removed from the Poupard papers and placed
in the Getty Research Institute Library. These items include books, catalogues,
posters and audio recordings.
"Christian."
The Little Review, Winter 1922, eds. Margaret
Anderson, Ezra Pound, Francis Picabia. Christian's article appears on pages
29-34. Includes a collage by Christian.
Raoul Hausmann.
Traité de questions sans solutions importantes,
Bale, 1957. Exemplar No. 22 of 350 printed copies, with autograph signature by
the author and dedication from Hausmann to Jasia Reichardt dated 11/4/65.
(90-B29558-3).
Raoul Hausmann.
Courrier Dada suivi d'une Bio-Bibliographie de l'Auteur par
Poupard-Lieussou
, Paris, 1958. Exemplar No. 2 of 50 printed copies with
a poetic dedication to Poupard-Lieussou signed 11/7/1959. Included: a recording
of Hausmann's
Sound Poetry; one audio cassette of the same; one
autographed water color sketch. ( 88-B24319-4).
Raoul Hausmann.
Poèmes et Bois. Cinq poèmes
précédés d'un hommage par Iliazd
, Paris, 1961.
Exemplar No. 4 of 50 printed copies, signed by Hausmann and Iliazd. (Special
Oversized 93-B10345, N 7433.4 H376 A1 1961)
Raoul Hausmann.
Siebensachen, Stuttgart, 1961. Exemplar No. 33 of 90
signed copies with dedication to Poupard-Lieussou dated 2/18/62. (Special
93-B11187)
Affiche für Raoul Hausmann in Limonges anlässlich
seines 75. Geburtstages
, Stuttgart, 1961. One folded poster (1 of 250
exemplars), with printed poems by Hausmann and dedication to Poupard-Lieussou
dated 5/25/61. (Special 93-B11484).
Raoul Hausmann.
Spreschspäne, Flensburg, 1962. Exemplar No. 376
of 700 printed copies with dedication to Poupard-Lieussou dated. (Special
89-B14587-2).
Raoul Hausmann.
Mélanographie, Paris, 1968. Exemplar No. 23 of
61 signed copies, with 6 original photographs (initialed and numbered "R H
31"), original photomontaged cover, and dedication to Poupard-Lieussou dated
3/12/69. (Special 93-B10331).
Raoul Hausmann.
La sensorialité excentrique 1968/69
précédé de: optophonétique 1922
, French and
English texts, Cambridge, 1970. Exemplar No. 197 of 440 printed copies with
dedication to Poupard-Lieussou dated 1/20/71. Included: 2 photocopies of
advertisements for the book. (Special 90-B5161-2).
Raoul Hausmann.
Sagemorcim, Bruxelles, 1971. Exemplar No. XXVI of 340
printed copies. (Special 90-B11214-2)
Raoul Hausmann.
Am Anfang war Dada, Steinbach/Giessen, 1972. (Special
89-B7888-2).
Mostra personale di Raoul Hausmann, Milano, Galleria
Pagani, 1963. (Special 93-B10265).
Raoul Hausmann, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1967. With
autograph dedication to Poupard-Lieussou dated 11/15/67. (Special
85-B15350-4).
Raoul Hausmann disegni e collages 1960-1970, text by
Jean-François Bory and Claude Viallat. Brescia, 1972. (Special
90-B29779).
Raoul Hausmann autour de L'Espirt de notre temps. Assemblages,
collages, photomontages
, Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne,
1974/75. (Special 89-B7738).
Hans Arp.
Muscheln und Schirme, Meudon-Val-Fleury, 1939. Signed
"Hausmann Paris 1939", it contains an autograph dedication to Poupard dated
(7/18/56). (Special 89-B 23430-2).
Journals include articles by or about Raoul Hausmann separated from
the Poupard-Lieussou collection and now located in the Getty Center
Library.
Revue F, No. 4 (Paris, n.d.).
De Tafelronde, 11/4 (Antwerp, n.d.).
Revue Arts et Lettres, 1/6 (Paris, 1946).
Revue Psychè, 2/8 (Paris, 1947).
Akzente. Zeitschrift für Dichtung,
(3/1957).
Hortulus, 9/2 (April, 1959).
Manuscripte. Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst,
Kritik
, (4/16/66) with dedication from Hausmann to
Poupard-Lieussou.
Cimézem. Svetové literatura (Prague,
1967).
OU. Cinquième saison, troisième numéro
franco-Britannique
(n.l., n.d.) with dedication from Hausmann to
Poupard-Lieussou. Mendelson, Marcel, Marcel Janco. Tel-Aviv, Massadah Co.,
1962.
Biographical/Historical Note
Yves Poupard-Lieussou was one of the first scholars of Dada and
surrealism. He began collecting materials related to the avant-garde in the
1940s, and continued into the late 1970s. As well as assembling an extensive
personal archive, Poupard wrote articles on avant-garde artists, collaborated
in the production of catalogs, and compiled and published bibliographies. He
was also the vice-president of the Association pour l'étude de dada et
du surréalisme that in 1965 published one issue of
Revue de l'Association pour l'étude du mouvement
dada
and four issues of the journal
Cahiers Dada de l'Association Internationale pour l'étude
de Dada et du Surréalisme
, 1967-1971. (For a bibliography of
Poupard's published work see the Bibliography, p. 45.) He also played an
important role in planning and organizing the Dada 50th anniversary exhibition
which opened in Paris, then moved to Zurich in 1966-1967.
Scope and Content of Collection
As one of the first scholars of Dada and surrealism, Yves
Poupard-Lieussou began in the 1940s to assemble books, ephemera and
bio-bibliographic information relating to the avant-garde. He befriended and
corresponded with artists, writers, publishers, critics and academic scholars
with the intent of publishing a global descriptive bio-bibliography on Dada.
The Yves Poupard-Lieussou correspondence and collected papers represents a
selected portion of his original archive that was dispersed after his
death.
The collection contains correspondence with artists, writers and
critics, manuscripts, including diary-like reminiscences, drawings, photographs
and printed matter: journals, small books and exhibition materials. In the
letters, most of them written to Poupard between 1956-1979, correspondents
recount their experiences and memories of the early 20th-century avant-garde
art movements, particularly Dada, and Surrealism. The bulk of the
correspondence is from Christian (pseudonym for Georges Herbiet, 1895-1969),
Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971) and Pierre de Massot (1900-1969). Manuscripts of
essays and diaries from Christian, Hausmann and Massot provide intimate and
detailed glimpses of their work and associations. The letters from Michel
Sanouillet, the president of the Association Internationale pour l'étude
de Dada et du Surrealisme, to Poupard, who was its dedicated vice-president,
provide important documentation of the activities, goals and achievements of
that organization in Europe and America over a span of twelve years, which
includes the dramatic period of political and social unrest of the late
1960s.
There are few letters from Poupard among these papers, but numerous
copies of rare texts (a few inedits too) and bibliographical lists of rare
publications in his print-like handwriting. The papers comprise ca. 4 lin. ft.
of correspondence with artists, writers and critics, most of it written to
Poupard, ca. 1 lin. ft. of printed material such as exhibition catalogs and
journals and ca. 1 lin. ft. of manuscripts and typescripts from Christian,
Raoul Hausmann and Pierre de Massot. Also included within the correspondence
are ca. 100 photographs of artwork and artists taken as early as 1914 but
mainly from the 1960s and 1970s, in addition to the over 500 contact prints
from the Dada 50th anniversary exhibition of 1966-1967. While most of the
correspondence dates from the years 1956 to 1979, there are some original
documents given to Poupard (including correspondence) that date from as early
as 1905. Taken as a whole, this material provides insight into the history of
Dada and its expansion in Europe and beyond, and testifies to the subjective
and personal nature inherent in attempts to record the past.
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Christian, 1895-1969
Hausmann, Raoul, 1886-1971
Massot, Pierre de
Art critics—France
Arts, Modern—20th century
Dadaism
Dadaism—Europe—Exhibitions
Dadaism—History—Sources
Surrealism
Genres and Forms of Material
Ephemera
Periodicals
Contributors
Béhar, Henri
Christian, 1895-1969
Hausmann, Raoul, 1886-1971
Janco, Marcel, 1895-
Massot, Pierre de
Picabia, Francis, 1879-1953
Richter, Hans, 1888-1976
Sanouillet, Michel
Schad, Christian, 1894-
Tanguy, Yves, 1900-1955
Tzara, Tristan, 1896-1963
Bibliography
Published works to which Yves Poupard-Lieussou contributed.
Hausmann, Raoul.
Courrier Dada, Paris, Le Terrain vague, 1958. With
bio-bibliography by Poupard-Lieussou.
Hugues, Jean and Yves Poupard-Lieussou.
Max Ernst: écrits et oeuvre grave, Tours,
Bibliothèque municipale, 1963.
Poupard-Lieussou, Yves.
Documents dada, Paris, Weber, 1974.
Poupard-Lieussou, Yves.
Dada en verve, Paris, P. Horay, 1972.
Tanguy, Yves.
Un recueil de ses oeuvres. A summary of his works.,
New York, P. Matisse, 1963. With a bibliographie illustrée by B. Karpel
and Y. Poupard-Lieussou.
Series I.
Letters from artists and writers,
1912-1984
Physical Description:
6 boxes
2.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
The letters from artists and writers read as a veritable who's who
of the artistic and literary avant-garde of early and mid-twentieth century
Europe. Poupard receives letters from Hans Richter, Philippe Soupault, Walter
Mehring, Georges Hugnet, Marcel Janco and Michel Sanouillet, to name only a
few. The letters frequently include bio-bibliographical information about their
authors as well as their opinions on topics concerning Dada and Surrealism.
Viewing the avant-garde as an international movement, Poupard documents
European Dada from Portugal to Russia, and from Sweden to Eastern Europe,
including members of the Romanian group of Tristan Tzara, a founder of the
dadaist movement. The correspondence also covers the expansion of Dada and
Surrealism to the American continents, from Canada and New York, to Chile.
Box 1, Folder 1
Albert-Birot, Pierre,
1956 Oct 3
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 1, Folder 1
Alexander, Maxime,
1971 May
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 1, Folder 1
Altmann, Roberto,
1971 Dec 26
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 1, Folder 1
Anselmino, Luciano, Galleria il Fauno,
Torino,
1971
Scope and Content Note
2 letters of May 28 and June 11, asking Poupard for materials
about Picabia, to be published in his magazine.
Box 1, Folder 1
Arnaud, Noël,
1978 Apr 27
Scope and Content Note
condolence card for the death of Annick
Lieussou.
Box 1, Folder 1
Arnel, Thomas,
1956 Jun 13
Scope and Content Note
letter in Danish with autobiographical note and its
French translation.
Box 1, Folder 1
Arp-Hagenbach, Marguerite,
1966,
1970
Scope and Content Note
one card of June 1966 acknowledging Poupard's condolences for
the death of her husband. Another card of 1970 Jan 8 sent along with recent
publications about Jean Arp (not included).
Box 1, Folder 1
Association pour l'étude de dada et du
surréalisme
,
1972 Jun 19
Scope and Content Note
two roneotyped sheets regarding the association's
projects.
Box 1, Folder 1
Augustin, Ronald,
1968
Scope and Content Note
3 letters and a card .
Box 1, Folder 1
Auric, Georges,
1962 Apr 10
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 1, Folder 1
Baj, Enrico,
1956 May 29 - 1970 Apr 24
Scope and Content Note
8 letters and one card. As a promotor
of the Italian group
Arte Nucleare, Baj writes about his projects and
asks for Poupard's advice. Joined: handwritten notes by Poupard on Baj's and
Dangelo's activities in the Nuclear Art Movement.
Box 1, Folder 1
Baron, Jacques,
1972 Mar 7
Scope and Content Note
1 card.
Box 1, Folder 1
Bédouin, Jean-Louis,
1962 Nov 26
Scope and Content Note
1 letter with bio-bibliographical notice.
Box 1, Folder 2
Béhar, Henri,
1974
Scope and Content Note
8 typescript pages of a "Chronology of Tristan Tzara," along
with letter dated 1974 Sep 28 in which Béhar asks Poupard to correct it. An
offprint of
Annales de l'université d'Abidjan. 90
typescript pages of an "Annotated bibliography of Tristan Tzara writings" with
handwritten annotations, to be published in 1975. In the introduction,
Béhar explains the ideological misadventures of Tzara that led to his
being labeled a "nihilist" and to his ostracism.
Box 1, Folder 3
Benayoun, Robert,
1962 Nov 15
Scope and Content Note
1 letter with bio-bibliographical information.
Box 1, Folder 3
Benoît, Pierre-André (PAB), writer and
publisher,
1940s,
1956,
1958,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
39 letters undated, except one card postmarked 1956 Jun 28, and
the next to last letter dated by Poupard 1958 Jul 1, but possibly dating from the
end of the 1940s. Comprise an exchange of literary opinions, and information
about efforts to retrieve and identify dadaist unpublished manuscripts and rare
texts printed in small editions.
Box 1, Folder 3
Berlewi, Henryk,
1958 Feb - 1964 Jul
Scope and Content Note
3 letters and 2 pneumatique letters from 2/1958 to 7/1964. A
three-page roneotyped circular on letterhead of the
Archives de l'art abstrait et de l'avant-garde
internationale (the AAAA)
, describes the organization's goals and
solicits collaboration from other like-minded artists.
Box 1, Folder 3
Biasi, Guido,
1969 Nov 19,
1969 Dec 19
Scope and Content Note
2 letters.
Box 1, Folder 3
Blavier, André,
1966 Jul 25
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 1, Folder 3
Blumenfeld, Erwin (known in the Dutch Dada movement as
Jan Blomfield)
1957 Dec 8
Scope and Content Note
one letter in two original copies. Discussion of
Dutch Dada - according to Blumenfeld it was a joke - and who actually
invented photomontage.
Box 1, Folder 3
Bonnefoy, Yves,
1946 Dec 26 - 1951 Jun 15
Scope and Content Note
4 letters and one announcement of
Surrealist publications listing his name, to be published January 1948.
Box 1, Folder 4
Bounouré, Vincent,
1962 Dec 24,
1963 Jan 8
Scope and Content Note
2 letters with bio-bibliographical
information.
Box 1, Folder 4
Breton, André,
1929?
Scope and Content Note
"Declaration du 27 Janvier 1925" with 9 points. Copy of his
introduction to an exhibition catalogue of 1929 in Poupard's hand.
Box 1, Folder 4
Brunius, Jacques,
1957 Jun 16
Scope and Content Note
letter with bio-bibliographical information.
Box 1, Folder 4
Budik, Arnost,
1971 Feb 19 - 1973 Apr 24
Scope and Content Note
7 letters and 3 cards. Joined: a
roneotyped announcement of the first issue of the quarterly
Gradiva, and a registration form for the
international exhibition organized by
Gradiva in 1972 in Brussels.
Gradiva wants to publish facsimile editions of all
dadaists and Budik, the editor, turns to Poupard, asking him to play an
intermediary role with certain artists, writers and scholars.
Box 1, Folder 4
Cabanel, Guy,
1962 Dec 18
Scope and Content Note
1 letter with autobiographical information.
Box 1, Folder 4
Cellier, Jean,
1942 May 18,
1945
Scope and Content Note
1 letter and one card announcing a mass in memory of
Cellier after his death on August 27, 1945.
Box 1, Folder 4
Centre culturel allemand/Goethe Institut
(Paris),
1967 Mar 20 - 1970 Sep 3
Scope and Content Note
3 letters from 3/20/67 to 9/3/70 and 2 invitation cards. The
center solicits Poupard's help in compiling a bibliography on Arp, and
organizing an exhibition on Hans Richter. Two invitation cards, and a printed
program of the Dada international exhibition and related cultural events
organized by the Goethe Institut of Paris in February 1978.
Box 1, Folder 4
Il Centro Galleria in Naples,
1970 Jan 27
Scope and Content Note
1 letter signed Dina Carola.
Box 1, Folder 4
Chagor, François,
1968
Scope and Content Note
2 letters about a portrait by Picabia to be lent by
Poupard to Musée Bourdelle for an exhibition. One invitation card for an
exhibition opening at the museum on 1968 Oct 30.
Box 1, Folder 4
Chavée, Achille,
1956 Feb 14 - 1959 Mar 17
Scope and Content Note
3 letters and one card . Joined:
Chavée's bio-bibliographical notice and that of Fernand Dumont (Fernand
Demoustier), co-founder with Chavée of
Rupture.
Box 1, Folder 4
Citroen, Paul,
1957 Dec,
1958 Jan 26
Scope and Content Note
letter in German of Dec 1957 (French translation included), and a
postcard. Citroen offers autobiographical information and claims to
have invented the photomontage technique as a "véritable composition."
Grosz and Herzfeld inspired his work.
Box 1, Folder 5
Cravan, Arthur,
1912-1915
Scope and Content Note
4 issues of
Maintenant, revue litéraire, handwritten
copies (by Poupard?) in capital letters - no. 1, Apr. 1912; no. 2, July 1913;
no. 4, supplement, March-Apr.; 1914, no. 5, March-Apr. 1915.
Box 1, Folder 6
Dada ephemera,
1920s
Scope and Content Note
card catalog of Dada manifestos, programs, posters, etc. from
the 1920s in various countries (147 cards). Included: a list of Dada letterhead
from the same year.
Box 1, Folder 7
Dada 50th anniversary exhibition,
1966/1967
Scope and Content Note
508 contact prints (4 x 5 cm) mounted on cardboard, showing
artifacts displayed at the 1966-1967 Paris-Zurich exhibition organized with
Poupard's contribution; the photographs were probably taken by his son. The
numbers refer to the entries in the exhibition catalogue.
Box 1, Folder 8
Dada 50th anniversary exhibition and
celebration,
1966,
Dec 1970
Scope and Content Note
clippings and a few pages from a December 1970
magazine (unidentified).
Box 1, Folder 9
Dada miscellaneous papers,
1920-1962
Scope and Content Note
copies of correspondence mostly from 1920-1936, sent to
Guillermo de Torre by Tristan Tzara, Paul Eluard, André Breton, and
Marcel Duchamp. Joined: papers related to the exhibition Paul Eluard at Ville
Saint-Denis in 1962. A handwritten chronology of Dada and Surrealist movements
from 1910 to 1936.
Box 1, Folder 10
Dada shows,
1960s
Scope and Content Note
a ten-page script in its original hand-binding (with a 25 cent
coin attached) for a "Spectacle Dada." Flier advertising a "Spectacle Dada"
organized by the Association pour l'étude du mouvement Dada.
Box 1, Folder 11
Dada photographs and negatives,
undated,
ca. 1920s-1930s?
Scope and Content Note
photograph of the initial group, Contimporanul, of Romanian
dadaists (Tristan Tzara, Maxy, Ion Vinea, Jacques Costine) taken in Bucharest.
One photograph and 8 negatives representing Christian Schad, Archipenko, Serner
and other Dada artists. 47 photographs of fliers and posters announcing dadaist
activities in France, Germany, and Russia.
Box 2, Folder 1
Colding, Steen, 1956
Scope and Content Note
letter of 1956 Dec 12 with biographical information about the
painter Erik Ortvad, 5 b/w photographs of his works, and a clipping about his
first exhibition in a Copenhagen restaurant in Dec 1956.
Box 2, Folder 1
Copley, Mrs., [Claire Copley?],
1964 Apr 7
Scope and Content Note
1 letter sent in her name along with a catalogue (not
included).
Box 2, Folder 1
Costes, Philippe,
1977-1978
Scope and Content Note
two b/w photographs signed by their author, with best wishes
for 1977 and 1978.
Box 2, Folder 1
Crotti, Jean,
1959
Scope and Content Note
3 letters signed from March to September.
Box 2, Folder 1
Crowet, Pierre-E.,
1956 Mar 29
Scope and Content Note
1 letter with information about the periodical
Le Soupirail published in 1928-1929.
Box 2, Folder 1
Dax, Adrien,
1962 Dec 28
Scope and Content Note
1 letter including a list of his graphic and
written works published in Surrealist publications from 1949 to 1961.
Box 2, Folder 1
De Ridder, André,
1956 May 11
Scope and Content Note
1 letter with information about the periodical
Sélection, published 1920 to 1933.
Box 2, Folder 1
Dhainaut, Pierre,
1963 Apr 3 - 1973 Jan 8
Scope and Content Note
15 letters and 18 cards including a
bio-bibliographical notice. Dhainaut and Poupard exchange articles, catalogs
and books concerning Surrealism and Dada. Since Poupard lives in Paris, he
willingly locates and sends books and documentation to his provincial friend.
By way of compensation, Dhainaut writes poems for Poupard that are included
with the letters.
Box 2, Folder 1
Domela, Cesar,
1966 Dec 1,
1970 Mar 6
Scope and Content Note
2 letters.
Box 2, Folder 2
Duhamel, Marcel,
1957 Apr 12
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 2, Folder 2
Dumas, Marie-Claire,
1972 Nov 24
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 2, Folder 2
Evola, Julius,
1964 Dec 7,
1965 Feb 3
Scope and Content Note
2 letters.
Box 2, Folder 2
Fata Morgana Editions,
1966
Scope and Content Note
one letter from 1966, a note and a card signed Geraud.
Apologies to Poupard for having mistakenly claimed that their edition of
Monsieur Morphée by Leconte was "original" [it appeared originally in
1929 in Bifur].
Box 2, Folder 2
Ferry, Jean,
1957 Feb 20,
1957 Mar 5
Scope and Content Note
2 letters. Ferry provides
bio-bibliographical information, and explains his break with Surrealism is
because of its religious turn.
Box 2, Folder 2
Flamand, Elie-Charles,
1963 Jan 6
Scope and Content Note
1 letter with autobiographical information.
Box 2, Folder 2
Flammarion Editions,
1975 Jun 13
Scope and Content Note
1 letter about an edition of Marcel Duchamp
writings.
Box 2, Folder 2
França, J.-Augusto,
1957
Scope and Content Note
3 letters from 1957, and a typescript four page article in
Portuguese on surrealism in Portugal.
Box 2, Folder 3
Freddie, Wilhelm, Exhibition catalogs:
Box 2, Folder 3
Freddie 1931. Copenhagen: Folmer Bonnen
Studio:
1931
Box 2, Folder 3
Surrealistik Intervention, Freddie and Harry
Carlsson. Copenhagen:
1939
Scope and Content Note
with two b/w photographs.
Box 2, Folder 3
Surrealism, Freddie. Copenhagen:
1940
Scope and Content Note
with b/w
illustration.
Box 2, Folder 3
Surrealisme. Copenhagen: Galerie Salby,
1940
Box 2, Folder 3
Odense. Copenhagen:
1941
Scope and Content Note
14 pages with 7 b/w
illustrations, text by Freddie and Bjerke-Peterson.
Box 2, Folder 3
Wilhelm Freddie. Stockholm: Galerie St. Lucas,
1945
Scope and Content Note
16 pages with three b/w illustrations, text by Per Olof Palme and
Göta Andian-Nilsson.
Box 2, Folder 3
Wilhelm Freddie, Malmö: Nessimhallen,
1951
Scope and Content Note
8 pages with three b/w illustrations, text by Steen Colding.
Box 2, Folder 3
Wilhelm Freddie: malerier og skulpturer.
Copenhagen: Duckerts Kunsthandel,
1951
Scope and Content Note
Three pages with text by Steen
Colding.
Box 2, Folder 3
Freddie. Copenhagen: Galerie Brich,
1959
Scope and Content Note
12
pages with four b/w illustrations, text by Edouard Jaguer.
Box 2, Folder 3
Wilhelm Freddie: Peintures et Objets. Paris:
Galérie de l'Université,
1965
Scope and Content Note
16 pages with two b/w
illustrations and one in color, text by Edouard Jaguer.
Box 2, Folder 3
Poster for the
Surrealistik Demonstrationer held in Copenhagen
at Gallerie Salby,
1940
Box 2, Folder 3
10 original b/w photographs of works by Freddie,
1937-1947
Scope and Content Note
Each
bears the stamp of the Danish Surrealist, critic and editor, Steen Colding. All
are annotated with titles and dates from 1937 to 1947.
Box 2, Folder 4
Gaffé, René,
1956
Scope and Content Note
letter from Jun 19 and a card from Jul 29.
Box 2, Folder 4
Gagnaire Aline, 1965 May 14
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 2, Folder 4
Gérard (Rosenthal), Francis,
1963 Oct 19
Scope and Content Note
1 letter with biographical note.
Box 2, Folder 4
Gignoux, A.,
1971 Jan 13
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 2, Folder 4
Giguère, Roland,
1956
Scope and Content Note
2 letters from May and September include lists of
Canadian Surrealist publications, and an autobiographical note.
Box 2, Folder 4
Goldfayn, Georges,
1962 Dec 4
Scope and Content Note
1 letter with autobiographical notice.
Box 2, Folder 4
Goriély, Benjamin,
1965-1967
Scope and Content Note
letter of 1965 May 7, and two calling cards from 1966-1967.
Box 2, Folder 4
Goujon, J.-P.,
1981 May 5 - 1984 Feb 12
Scope and Content Note
15 letters sent from Seville, Spain. Working on his thesis about the French poet Renée Viven, Goujon
seeks additional information from Poupard who proves to be extremely
helpful.
Box 2, Folder 5
Götz, K. O., 1956 Jun 18
Scope and Content Note
1 long and intense letter in which
Götz discusses various writers and artists from the first period of
Surrealism in Germany, including, Hausmann, Schwitters, and Klee, and considers
the time is ripe to publish an important book on Dada.
Box 2, Folder 5
Gourdet, Michel,
1973,
1977
Scope and Content Note
1 letter and a card. He asks Poupard's
help for the thesis he is writing about Claude Sernet. Joined: two page list of
Sernet's publications handwritten by Poupard, and two clippings from
Europe with texts by Sernet.
Box 2, Folder 5
Graverol, Jane,
1965 Nov 10
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 2, Folder 5
Gronier, Georges,
1971 Sep 29
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 2, Folder 5
G...(signature indecipherable),
Mar 1956
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Cairo with bio-bibliographical
information.
Box 2, Folder 5
Hamilton, Richard,
1960 Oct 30
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 2, Folder 5
Havrenne, Marcel / Henein, Georges,
1956
Scope and Content Note
1 letter of 1956 Feb 28 from Havrenne. Joined: a bio-bibliographical note by
Poupard.
Henein, Georges letter of 1956 Mar 6.
Box 2, Folder 5
Hérold, Jacques,
1981
Scope and Content Note
typed bio-bibliographical information (no date), with
handwritten additions including the date 1981 Jan 11 (?).
Box 2, Folder 5
Hubert, Etienne-Alain,
1975 May 3 - 1978 Feb 7
Scope and Content Note
8 letters. Another scholar turning
to Poupard for information - in this case about Pierre Reverdy.
Box 2, Folder 5
Huelsenbeck, Richard (aka Hulbeck Charles, R. after
settling in New York),
1955 Jan - Nov 1959
Scope and Content Note
13 letters in English and German.
Include a two-page autobiographical notice, and a two page list of his
publications.
Box 2, Folder 6
Höch, Hannah,
1920
Scope and Content Note
portrait dated on the back "Berlin 1920." On the photograph's
borders, the words: "firenze/ verona/ mille saluti d'italia/ 1920 roma/"
Box 2, Folder 7
Hugnet, Georges,
1955 Jul 9 - 1966 Jul 18
Scope and Content Note
10 letters and 9 cards; 15 pages of
notes and bio-bibliographical and chronological lists written by Poupard. He
and Hugnet spent Sundays together discussing Surrealism and Dada while Hugnet
assembled materials for his dictionary on Dada. Hugnet fondly recalls these
meetings and insists that they make time to continue them.
Box 2, Folder 7
Hunt, Ronald, librarian at the University of
Newcastle, England,
1967 Jan 23
Scope and Content Note
1 letter asking for Dada publications.
Box 2, Folder 7
Investart,
May 1973
Scope and Content Note
letter of May 23 from Poupard returning 80,000 Fr. to the
company because he could not buy for them the painting they wanted, followed by
a thank you letter of May 25 from Investart.
Box 2, Folder 7
Jaguer, Edouard,
1958 Dec 9 - 1966 Oct 10
Scope and Content Note
7 letters, one card, and one original collage. Asks for Poupard's help in locating materials such as an article by
Breton and photographs of Tanguy and Ernst. One original collage dated 1958,
sent as a greeting card.
Box 2, Folder 8
Janco, Marcel,
1965-1971
Scope and Content Note
23 letters, 14 postcards, and 3 pneumatiques from Tel-Aviv. Included: a biographical text on Janco in Poupard's hand-writing,
a
printed poem by Michel Seuphor dedicated to Janco, and a poster for the
exhibition "Janco, 1918-1968" in Milan, 1969, with two invitations. Ensuring
that "la vraie histoire de Dada" be written and remembered is Janco's principal
concern in his letters to Poupard. As an indefatigable promoter of Dada, he
recounts the early days of the movement, organizes exhibitions, is concerned
with the preservation of its legacy, and repudiates its "destructive" elements.
Janco insists on the significance of Zurich in the Dada movement, asserting
that when Dada moved to Paris, it was eclipsed by Surrealism. He also discusses
Jean Arp and Hans Richter.
Box 2, Folder 9
Marcel Janco Créait en
1916
,
1916,
1967
Scope and Content Note
9 b/w photographs of artwork exhibited in 1967 in Tel Aviv, laid
into an original folder with painted additions by Janco and an appreciative
dedication to Poupard.
Box 3, Folder 1
Jean, Marcel,
1955-1979
Scope and Content Note
9 letters and 5 cards. Jean supplies Poupard
with bio-bibliographical information, and gives a detailed list of Hungarian
avant-garde journals. He also asks Poupard for assistance with his book
Histoire de la peinture surréaliste.
Box 3, Folder 2
Joosten, Paul,
1935,
1953-1958
Scope and Content Note
13 letters and 32 postcards, one embellished with an original
collage. All items are in Flemish, addressed to Raoul Thyriad in Antwerp from
1953 to 1958. Joosten shares with his friend Thyriad his health problems,
artistic aspirations and many of the mundane details of everyday life. He
mentions his paintings "Endoxie" and "Der Tod." Joined: a card with picture of
Greta Garbo; on verso a short note addressed to an unknown woman, dated 1935 Feb 4.
One b/w photograph of the staircase in Joosten's house taken by Jan Kockx (no
date).
Box 3, Folder 3
Joosten, Paul publications,
1923,
1964, 1969
Scope and Content Note
Three publications: 1.
Histoire de Mérinof et Mérédoc ou les
Hérodes salon le genre humain. Avec Deux Dessins de l'auteur
, by
Joosten. Bruxelles, Les Lèvres nues, 1969, first edition. One of 26
copies on verge. An eight page erotic fairy tale in which the story of Herod,
set in Riedijk, Anvers, is salaciously parodied.
2.
Le Retour...Des Choses, poster; Bruxelles, Galerie
Saint-Laurent, 1964, Concertina, 6 pages with b/w illustrations.
3.
L'Oeuvre Plastique de Paul Joostens, by Georges
Marlier, Anvers, Ça-ira, 1923, first edition, 28 pages with 24 b/w
plates.
Box 12*, Folder 1
Joosten, Paul.
Les Mollusques 1925 Antwerp: Ronny Van de Velde,
1981
Scope and Content Note
Portfolio with 6 screenprints of an erotic and satirical nature. Two of
these images also appear in the
Histoire de Mérinof et
Mérédoc
. One of 100. Each stamped.
Box 3, Folder 4
Karpel, Bernard,
1974 Oct 15 - 1975 Apr 7
Scope and Content Note
3 letters. He asks Poupard's
permission for the publication of the Tanguy bibliography by De Rache in
Brussels, and to act as intermediary between him and Pierre Matisse for
establishing satisfactory conditions.
Box 3, Folder 4
Kapidzic-Osmanagic, Hanifa,
1964,
1968
Scope and Content Note
2 letters from 1968 Oct 6 and 1968 Oct 16 about her visit to Paris.
A letter from the University library of Dijon from 1964 Apr 27 informing Poupard
that he may use their copy of Kapidzic's thesis [
Le Surréalisme serbe et ses rapports avec le
surréalisme français
] only through interlibrary loan at
the Sorbonne library's request.
Box 3, Folder 4
Kaye, Eldon,
1971 Oct 10
Scope and Content Note
letter about a book she published at Librarie Droz
in Genova.
Box 3, Folder 4
Koenig, Théodore,
1968 May 5
Scope and Content Note
card.
Box 3, Folder 4
Kundera, Ludvik,
1971-1975
Scope and Content Note
3 letters in German, and 2 cards.
Box 3, Folder 4
Lacomblez, Jacques,
1963 Mar 23
Scope and Content Note
letter with bio-bibliograpical information.
Box 3, Folder 4
Le Boulanger, Jean-Yves,
1968-1972
Scope and Content Note
3 letters. Joined: b/w photograph of a
drawing by Le Boulanger, and a poster for his retrospective at Nantes in
1969.
Box 3, Folder 5
Lebel, Jean-Jacques,
1958
Scope and Content Note
2 letters from 1958 on letterhead "Qui est Medium?"
accompanying issues of the periodical
Front Unique (not included).
Box 3, Folder 5
Lecomte, Marcel,
1956 Apr 4
Scope and Content Note
letter with information about his writings.
Box 3, Folder 5
Legrand, Gérard,
1955-1956
Scope and Content Note
2 letters containing bio-
biographical information.
Box 3, Folder 5
Leiris, Michel,
1954 Oct 23
Scope and Content Note
letter with information about a book:
The prints of Joan Miró, New York,
1947.
Box 3, Folder 5
Lély, Gilbert, 1955
Scope and Content Note
calling card and a bio-bibliographical notice compiled by
Poupard 1955 May 8 then corrected and annotated by Lély.
Box 3, Folder 5
Lemaître, Maurice,
1962-1964
Scope and Content Note
2 letters from 1962 Mar 13, and 1964 Feb 8 about his plans of future
publications in the lettriste spirit. A copy of his letter of 1962 Apr 4 to Michel
Conil Lacoste comments on an article about Picabia's retrospective in
Marseille.
Box 3, Folder 5
Llinas, Julio,
1958 Sep 13
Scope and Content Note
letter with information about the short-lived
Argentinian publications,
A Partir de Cero (1952-1956) and
Boa (1958).
Box 3, Folder 6
Losfeld, Eric,
1952,
1955-1971
Scope and Content Note
letter of 1952 Aug 24 informing Poupard about recent
Arcanes publications in 1952. Included: 27 ephemeral
pieces, such as
Arcanes,
Le Terrain Vague, and other bulletins and leaflets
advertising avant-garde and erotic literature published by Losfeld between 1955
and 1971.
Box 3, Folder 7
Lyle, John, editor and bookseller,
1969-1971
Scope and Content Note
2 letters and one card about future
issues of his journal
TRANSFORMAcTION. Joined: an open letter (1971),
and two photocopies of articles by Lyle from
Arts & Artists (1969).
Box 3, Folder 7
Malkine, Fern,
1976
Scope and Content Note
3 letters and one card from 1976 Nov 15 to 1976 Dec 7. She is
looking for information on her father's work, and is grateful for Poupard's
help. Included: a list of biographical information about the painter Georges
Malkine, his exhibitions, and published works in Poupard's handwriting.
Box 3, Folder 7
Mandiargues, Pierre de,
1956 Feb 18
Scope and Content Note
letter containing a list of his published
works.
Box 3, Folder 7
Marembert, Jean,
undated
Scope and Content Note
note on calling card with editorial information
about
Aventure Celeste.
Box 3, Folder 8
Mariën, Marcel,
Feb 1956-Apr 1970
Scope and Content Note
12 letters and 18 cards sent from February 1956 to April 1970.
Included: photocopies of two pages from a manuscript (
Pélleas et Mélisande), attributed by
Mariën to Picabia. The correspondence is mainly an exchange of
information, publications and photocopies of rare items, meant to help Poupard
prepare his avant-garde encyclopedia, and help Mariën edit Paul
Nougé's writings, and publish the quarterly
Les lèvres nues.
Box 3, Folder 9
Mariën, Marcel,
undated
Scope and Content Note
51 typed cards with detailed bibliographical information on
periodicals, ephemera, and brochures of Belgian Surrealism.
Box 3, Folder 10
Matarasso, H.,
1956-1957
Scope and Content Note
16 letters and one card from 1956 Feb 8 to 1957 Dec 12. Included:
copies of two letters sent by Matarasso to Louis Aragon and Raymond Queneau.
Most of the letters concern the project to produce an illustrated dictionary on
Dada and Surrealism. However, due to ill health, Matarasso is forced to
renounce his participation in the project.
Box 3, Folder 11
Mayoux, Jehan,
1954-1963
Scope and Content Note
3 letters. Mayoux corrects a list of
his publications sent to him by Poupard and provides biographical
information.
Box 3, Folder 11
Mehring, Walter,
1956
Scope and Content Note
2 letters from May 15 and June 1, 1956 and a holograph draft of a
speech (
Mais où sont les neiges DADA...) given in
1966 Oct 25 at the Goethe Institut in Paris. Mehring writes in detail of his Dada
activities, his publications and the aftermath of Dada, giving precise
biographical information. He also mentions a drawing of himself made by Robert
Delaunay.
Box 3, Folder 11
Mueller-Kraus,
1956-1957
Scope and Content Note
3 letters in German (with handwritten translation in French), each embellished with a colored graphic work. Joined: 3
typed sheets with bibliographical information about Heinrich Hoerle, and Dada
books and publications.
Box 3, Folder 11
Naumann, Francis M,
1979
Scope and Content Note
3 letters. At work on his dissertation
at the University in New York, Naumann solicits information from Poupard
concerning Walter Conrad Arensberg.
Box 3, Folder 11
Neuhuys, Paul,
1956,
1969
Scope and Content Note
4 letters, two from 1956, and two from 1969. He provides
information on the journals
Ça Ira, Sélection,
Correspondence,
Le Centaure and
Cahiers Dada-Surréalisme as well as the
people who collaborated in their production.
Box 3, Folder 11
Oppenheim, Meret,
1957
Scope and Content Note
2 letters and a postcard containing
detailed autobiographical information.
Box 4, Folder 1
Pana, Sasa,
1965-1979
Scope and Content Note
4 letters and 11 cards - four of them photographs of Pana's
collages. Pana, a driving force of Romanian Surrealism,
is very willing to help Poupard with his research on Dada and Surrealism.
Joined: a diagram of Romanian journals on or about the avant-garde between the
two wars. Typescript entitled
A Propos de "Entracte." B/w photograph of a Pana
collage: inscribed on verso best wishes 1971. B/w photographic reproductions of
two letters sent to Pana by Tristan Tzara. A homemade booklet comprised of
small photographic reproductions of the title pages of the Romanian journal
UNU from 1928-1932. A few clippings from Romanian
newspapers with contributions by Pana.
Box 4, Folder 2
Parmée (Clarke), Margaret,
1971-1981
Scope and Content Note
3 letters and 13 cards. At work on her
dissertation, Parmée solicits Poupard's help in gathering information
about Yvan Goll. In most of the cards, she thanks Poupard for his
assistance.
Box 4, Folder 2
Paschal-Lejeune, Didier,
1971 Dec 30
Scope and Content Note
letter sent to Poupard with the first issues of
his publication
Cheval d'Attaque (not included).
Box 4, Folder 2
Perilli, Achille,
ca. 1958-1961
Scope and Content Note
2 pneumatique letters and a New Year's card with
signed drawing.
Box 4, Folder 2
Pierre, José,
1964-1967
Scope and Content Note
3 letters with detailed information
about his activity as a Surrealist writer and scholar of avant-garde.
Box 4, Folder 2
Piqueray, Marcel,
1956-1959
Scope and Content Note
3 letters. Joined:
bio-bibliographical notices about the brothers, Gabriel and Marcel
Piqueray.
Box 4, Folder 3
Péret, Benjamin (documents assembled by
Poupard)
1935,
1959,
1963,
undated
Scope and Content Note
a copy of the Proces Verbal of the general meeting for founding
the
Association des Amis de Benjamin Péret in May
1963; a copy of René Char's defamatory "open letter to Péret" of
December 1935; five photocopies of Péret's letters to André
Breton (undated), and press clippings following Péret's death in
September 1959.
Box 4, Folder 4
Picabia, Francis,
1921-1947
Scope and Content Note
original texts copied by Poupard (40 pages in his handwriting,
10 pages typescript) include poems, short essays and other pieces in prose from. Among these, an autobiographical presentation
Francis Picabia et Dada (1921),
Profession de foi (1927), and
Manifeste Dada. Several texts are marked "inedit,"
such as the group of poems
Ennanzus Cerf-Volant, which was to be published in
the periodical
Les quatre vents, no. X of 1947, but never
appeared.
Box 4, Folder 5
Picabia, Francis,
undated
Scope and Content Note
40 pages of documentation gathered or copied by Poupard for his
essay about the artist, including: biographical notes, genealogical tree of
Picabia family, chronology of Picabia's writings, paintings, and exhibitions;
lists of paintings in his collection, lists of photographs of, or including
Picabia, and materials published about him.
Box 4, Folder 6
Picabia, Francis,
undated
Scope and Content Note
30 pages copied by Poupard from short notes, presentations,
introductions published by contemporary writers and artists about Picabia.
Box 4, Folder 7
Picabia, Francis,
undated
Scope and Content Note
7 photographs and 2 negatives after manuscript pages of Picabia.
Newspapers clippings about the artists and his art. 8 letters and forms from
museums organizing Picabia exhibitions, soliciting paintings in Poupard's
possession to be lent for the occasion.
Box 4, Folder 8
Picabia-Everling, Germaine,
1958-1974
Scope and Content Note
56 letters and 6 cards. Picabia's companion
from 1917 to 1927, Germaine is a friend of Poupard, sending him news about her
work for a gallery in Cannes, about some common acquaintances, and her health.
She gives information about Picabia's life. She asks Poupard's help in finding
a publisher for her memoirs, and for advice about selling the Picabia paintings
in her possession.
Box 4, Folder 9
Poupard-Lieussou, Yves, about Picabia,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Essai de bibliographie générale,
manuscript (48 p.), typescript (39 p.), and notes (6 p.), listing Picabia's
works as a writer, a publisher, a poet, a critic, and an artist, including
lists of his exhibitions, of books with his illustrations, and books and texts
published in praise of Picabia.
Box 4, Folder 10
Poupard-Lieussou, Yves, petites revues,
undated
Scope and Content Note
a 96-page manuscript of bibliographical lists of petites revues
(small avant-garde publications) from 1900 to the present, arranged
alphabetically, including foreign publications.
Box 4, Folder 11
Protest movements,
1967-1968
Scope and Content Note
manifestos, open letters, etc. from
Front des Artistes Revolutionnaires and other groups
and persons.
Box 4, Folder 12
Publications,
1924,
1971-1972
Scope and Content Note
Presence Poétique, from Centre d' Information
et de Coordination des revues de poésie, Nice, two issues (1971 and
1972); photocopy of
Belles-Lettres, Paris, no. 622-66, Dec. 1924.
Box 5, Folder 1
Quinta Parete documenti del
surrealismo
,
1971-1973
Scope and Content Note
3 letters signed Janus. He is grateful
for the information sent by Poupard, and speaks about his plans for the future
of the Turin journal and his own research.
Box 5, Folder 2
Richter, Hans (1888-1976),
1956-1971
Scope and Content Note
20 letters and 2 cards. This
correspondence gives a glimpse of Richter as both a practicing artist and an
interpreter of Dada. In the first few letters, he answers Poupard's questions
about Dada and its surviving members, particularly Schwitters. Richter
discusses the film,
8 x 8, that he is currently making. In later
letters, he discusses the Dada exhibition that traveled to Zurich and Paris. He
feels that, as a member of the original group, he, and not some scholar, should
be in control of it. Richter also collaborates on the portfolio in homage to
Duchamp, organized by Poupard in 1968.
Box 5, Folder 2
Texts
Scope and Content Note
typescript, 4 pages in German, entitled
Kurt Schwitters, "from a book in progress,
The Time of G by Hans Richter," with corrections and
annotations by the author. Typescript, 2 pages, partial French translation of
the above-described text by Richter on Schwitters, entitled "La Colonne
Schwitters," and a manuscript copy by Poupard of the remaining text translated
into French. Two typescripts, one page each, entitled
Hannah Hoech/Hannah l'Habile [i.e. Höch].
Roneotyped bio-filmography describes Richter's scroll paintings and films from
1919 to 1946. Manuscript copy, 6 pages by Poupard of the chapter on Dada from
George Grosz's autobiography.
Box 5, Folder 2
Letters from Schwitters to Richter,
1946
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of two letters sent by Schwitters to Richter
in March and November 1946. He tells Richter that he no longer speaks or writes
in German except for his poetry. Photograph of an article by Richter entitled
"Gegen Ohne Für Dada," accompanied by a typed French
translation.
Box 5, Folder 2
Richter article about "Dreams that money can buy"
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy of an article by Richter in which he describes
making his new film "Dreams that Money Can Buy," in collaboration with Calder,
Duchamp, Ernst, Léger, and Man Ray.
Box 5, Folder 3
Ribemont-Dessaignes, G.,
1957
Scope and Content Note
3 letters regarding his possible contribution to the
illustrated dictionary on Dada and Surrealism under the direction of H.
Matarasso.
Box 5, Folder 3
Riegen, Nancy, (reference librarian at the New York
Museum of Modern Art)
1955 Jan 11
Scope and Content Note
letter giving Poupard the requested information
about the publication of
Camera Work,
New York dada, and
TNT.
Box 5, Folder 3
Rumney, Pegeen,
1963 Sep 27
Scope and Content Note
note asking for the return of a catalogue.
Box 5, Folder 4
Rigot, Leonce,
undated,
1972
Scope and Content Note
documentation partly handwritten, partly typed, completed with
clippings about twelve Belgian avant-garde poets: Chavée, Dotremont,
Dumont, Eemans, Goemans, Havrenne, Hooreman, Joostens, Pansaers, Souris, Van
Ostaijen, and Lecomte. Included: a letter to Poupard from Miette Rigot, dated
1972 Oct 21, about the death of her husband, and a thank-you card to the same, for
condolences.
Box 5, Folder 5
Ristic, Marko,
1963-1965
Scope and Content Note
2 letters and 2 cards, including nine pages of
bio-bibliographical information on the Yugoslavian Dada and Surrealist artists,
writers, and publications.
Box 5, Folder 6
Rosey, Guy,
ca. 1960-1976
Scope and Content Note
letter from 1971 Dec 24, 3 calling cards with notes, and 2 other
cards from 1960 into the 1970s. Included: a list of Rosey's publications, and
copies of his poems "Les moyens d'existence," "Violette Nozières," and
"Cinq bonnets de fantaisie."
Box 5, Folder 7
Sanouillet, Michel,
1956-1968
Scope and Content Note
42 letters to Poupard from 1956 to 1968. Important
correspondence documenting twelve years of activity of the Association pour
l'étude de Dada et du Surréalisme, and the creation of its
American section during a period of intense interest for Dada, both in Europe
and in Northern America. Sanouillet discusses various events, negotiations and
decisions of the Paris Bureau (mainly of its president, Henri Béhar, and
its vice president Poupard), such as the future of the archive Tzara, the
retrospective Dada, the collaboration with the Musée d'art moderne, the
Fonds Doucet, the Bulletin of the Association, various exhibitions and
publications, etc. Sanouillet also sends18 letters received from various
people, mostly indignant protests against the addition of Surrealism to the
initial name of the Association for the studies on Dada. Included: 8 pages of
documents related to the Festival International du Livre at Nice [Sanouillet
was the organizer and the lecturer for a public course at Nice in 1971-72].
Joined: clippings from
Toronto Daily Star of 1959 Nov 2 showing Sanouillet and
his wife Anna running the French monthly newspaper in Toronto, and the
Librairie Française in Toronto.
Box 5, Folder 8
Schad, Christian,
1965-1971
Scope and Content Note
17 letters and 2 cards. Included:
photocopies of 3 letters from Picabia to Schad. This correspondence is an
exchange of information, publications and photographs of artworks with Poupard.
The letters of 1965 express Schad's interest in the retrospective Dada exhibit,
and the choice of his works to be included in the exhibition. He accepts
Poupard's choices, but insists that some "Schadographies" should be shown too.
Included: bio-bibliographical notes of Schad and Walter Serner, both signed by
Christian Schad, along with a "Definition of Schadographies" 1965 May 28,
photocopies of 5 press clippings from 1920, and of a "Movement Dada" manifesto
signed by Picabia, Tzara, Serner and Ribemont-Dessaignes from 1920. A group
photograph represents Schad, Archipenko, Serner and others in Geneva. Also
included: an offprint of Zurich/Genf: DADA by Christian Schad published in
Imprimatur, III, 1962/63, 11 photographs of
paintings and colored relief by Schad with titles and dates penciled on the
versos.
Box 5, Folder 9
Sacco-Ruest, H,
1919,
1961
Scope and Content Note
2 letters. Joined: partial table of
contents to the periodical
Der Einzige, nos. 1 to 27/28 from 1919, and
detailed summaries of nos. 14 to 20, in Poupard's hand.
Box 5, Folder 9
Sauwen, Rik,
1967-1969
Scope and Content Note
10 letters. Sauwen is writing a
dissertation on Beligian Dada and solicits information and assistance from
Poupard, while keeping him updated with his findings about that lesser known
area of dadaist manifestations.
Box 5, Folder 9
Schuster, Jean,
1962 Nov 17
Scope and Content Note
letter with autobiographical note.
Box 5, Folder 9
Schwarz, Arturo,
1977 Jan 14
Scope and Content Note
letter about his new book
Almanacco Dada, thanking Poupard for his
collaboration. A second volume,
L'Afilosofia Dada should follow soon, containing
an essay on Dada, a biographical dictionary of more than 300 names, and a
bibliography of more than 3000 titles.
Box 5, Folder 9
Segal, Marianne,
1966 Jul 22
Scope and Content Note
letter with information about Dada publications
requested by Poupard.
Box 5, Folder 9
Seligmann, Kurt,
1957 Mar 25
Scope and Content Note
letter with information about Surrealist
publications.
Box 5, Folder 9
Sernet, Claude,
1964-1968
Scope and Content Note
10 letters, 2 calling cards, and one card from 1964 Nov 25 to
1967 Dec 1; an invitation card to a commemorative evening for Sernet, held in
Paris on 1968 Mar 15. The Franco-Romanian poet tells Poupard that he would like to
publish some of Tzara's early poems, fondly recalls his dadaist past and
discusses his ill health. Three pages of bio-bibliographical information about
Sernet in Poupard's handwriting.
Box 5, Folder 9
Seuphor, Michel,
1955 Nov 11
Scope and Content Note
letter signed by his wife and dated, includes a four page typed
bio-bibliography of her husband.
Box 5, Folder 9
Sheppard, Richard,
1974-1975
Scope and Content Note
4 letters from 1974 Oct 1 - 1975 Jan 2, asking for information about
some Dada publications, and sending Poupard bibliographical data on unknown
articles and letters of Hugo Ball and Raoul Hausmann.
Box 5, Folder 9
Soupault, Philippe,
1955,
1957
Scope and Content Note
2 short letters from 1955 Apr 27 and 1957 Mar 27 with a
bio-bibliographical notice that includes his meetings with Breton and
Apollinaire in 1917, his activity within the group
L'Aventure Dada and his decision to leave it, his
acquaintance with Rimbaud, and his travels.
Box 5, Folder 9
Stern, Anatol,
1966-1967
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, one page of bio-bibliographical data, and 2 cards
from 1966 Sep 26 - 1967 Nov 6.
Box 5, Folder 9
Sullerot, François,
1979
Scope and Content Note
one letter of 1979 Jan 23 and six pages of bio-bibliographical
data about various writers (Hausmann, Rey-Dussuel, etc.)
Box 5, Folder 9
Survage, Leopold (Cubist painter)
Scope and Content Note
biographical note.
Box 6, Folder 1
Surrealism, biobibliographic notes
Scope and Content Note
notes on Surrealist writers and artists from
various countries: the Chileans: Braulio Arenas, Jorge Cáceres, Enrique
Gómez-Correa, and a list of Chilean periodicals and ephemera. Also the
Russian Velimir Khlebnikov, and the Yugoslav, Radovan Ivsic.
Box 6, Folder 2
Surrealism, clippings about,
1925-1968
Scope and Content Note
clippings about writers, artists, ideas and attitudes from newspapers and journals, such as:
Gazette des Lettres,
Paris-Express,
Les Nouvelles littéraires,
Arts,
Le Monde. Included: a roneotyped copy of
Déclaration du 27 Janvier 1925, signed by all
the members of the Bureau de Recherches Surréalistes (Aragon, Breton,
Desnos, Eluard, Péret, etc.)
Box 6, Folder 3
Surrealism, photographs
Scope and Content Note
contact prints and negatives of three issues of the serial
Der Mistral (Zhrich, 1915). Four negatives of the
portrait of a man, and the same man with a boy. Photographs of three medals:
one with the commemorative portrait of Benjamin Péret, 1899-1959; one
with the names Joan Miró, Yves Tanguy, Max Morise, Man Ray inscribed
within the contour of a profile on the obverse, and the inscription "Hommage au
Surréalisme" under the same profile on the reverse; one with a seated
nude female and the inscription: "Dormir, dormir dans les pierres." A strip of
six negatives of a painted portrait. An envelope for photographs from Studio
Mac-Mahon in Paris.
Box 6, Folder 4
Tanguy, Kay Sage,
1956-1972
Scope and Content Note
54 letters, two cards, one telegram and four envelopes with
little games for the New Year sent to Poupard from Woodbury, Conn.
1956 Jun 6 - 1962 Dec 23. She describes her efforts to locate and gather
information about her husband's works, and to obtain photographic reproductions
for the complete catalogue to be published with Poupard's help. A small
clipping pasted on her last and very happy letter of Dec. 23, 1962 announces
that the
Catalogue of the Paintings of Yves Tanguy, with over
350 illustrations and bibliography by B. Karpel and Yves Poupard, will be
published in spring 1963. [Kay dies two weeks later, in January 1963; see
telegram from Pierre Matisse in folder 5].
Box 6, Folder 5
Tanguy, Yves,
ca. 1956-1973
Scope and Content Note
assembled correspondence from 1956 to 1958. 29 letters and 5
bills for photographic reproductions from persons owning paintings by Yves
Tanguy, sent to Poupard in answer to an announcement published by him in the
magazine
Arts on Feb. 27, 1957, in which he asked for
descriptions and photographs of Tanguy's works for the monograph in
preparation. Included also 8 letters from Jacques Cordonnier, who tries to
track down some art collectors known to possess such paintings. Letters and
telegrams from the art dealer Pierre Matisse regarding the acquisition of a
painting by Tanguy. His last telegram to Poupard from Zurich, postdated January
10, 1963, announces the death of the artist's widow, Kay Sage Tanguy.
Box 6, Folder 6
Maurice Rapin and Mirabelle Dors papers,
1956-1972
Scope and Content Note
8 letters and 3 cards
to Poupard, signed together or only by Maurice Rapin, from May 1962 to December
1972. The letters are rich in information about various kinds of activities of
the couple, including 3 photographs of their works, and detailed biographical
notes about the painter Pierre Roy and Maurice Rapin himself. Included: 11
ephemera published by Rapin between 1956 and 1964; 3 posters and 4 catalogues
of exhibitions in which both Rapin and Mirabelle Dors participated with their
works in 1964, 1970, and 1972. A three-page bibliographical note in Poupard's
hand listing the
Tendance populaire surréaliste issues
published from 1955 to 1968.
Box 6, Folder 7
La Tendance Populaire
Surréaliste
,
1957-1973
Scope and Content Note
weekly bulletin published by Maurice Rapin and Mirabelle Dors -
118 issues, Nov 1957 to May 1973.
Box 6, Folder 8
La Tendance Populaire
Surréaliste
,
1965-1970
Scope and Content Note
supplement published by Maurice Rapin and Mirabelle Dors (ca. 15
issues from 1965 to 1970); also mimeographed pamphlets and other texts from the
same period.
Box 6, Folder 9
Thiercelin, Jean,
1967 Nov 29
Scope and Content Note
letter to Poupard, announcing the shipment of the
text
Sept lettres pour les amis.
Box 6, Folder 9
Toyen,
1971 Apr 18
Scope and Content Note
letter to Mme Poupard excusing himself for not
being able to illustrate the poems of her friend, Guy Rosey, because he is busy
preparing an exhibition.
Box 6, Folder 9
Tschinkel, Augustin,
1952-1956
Scope and Content Note
3 b/w photographs of his paintings dated 1952, 1955, and 1956
sent to Poupard in 1957; one is titled
Metamorphose, another represents Laocoon.
Box 6, Folder 9
Tzara, Christian,
1965 Feb 21
Scope and Content Note
letter to the Association pour l'étude de
Dada, complaining that materials from his father's archive are being published
without his approval.
Box 6, Folder 9
Valançay, Robert,
1958,
1968-1969
Scope and Content Note
letter of 1958 Jan 10 advising Poupard about choosing the right
publishing house for his work. Two postcards from 1968-1969. Joined: a list of
his own publications, and three bibliographical lists with summaries and notes
on the journal
Maintenant.
Box 6, Folder 9
Valentin, Albert,
1962 May 27
Scope and Content Note
letter with bio-bibliographical information.
Box 6, Folder 9
Valorbe, François (Francois Hurault de
Vibraye)
1949-1955
Scope and Content Note
3 letters with bio-bibliographical information provided.
Box 6, Folder 9
Vancrevel, Laurens,
1968 Oct 25
Scope and Content Note
card announcing the shipment of the
publications of
Surrealistich Kabinet.
Box 6, Folder 9
Vandercammen, Edmond,
1971 Apr 7
Scope and Content Note
card dated. Joined: a copy of a small anthology of his
poems with dedication to Poupard.
Box 6, Folder 9
Van Heeckeren, Jean,
1955,
1960
Scope and Content Note
3 letters from May and June 1955 and 1960 Apr 3. He is compiling a
bibliography on Picabia, and sends new information about the artist. Notation
in Poupard's hand on the 1960 envelope: "last letter of J. Van Heeckeren, died
on 7 April 1960."
Box 6, Folder 9
Vasseur, André,
1975-1976
Scope and Content Note
one card and one letter with bibliographical notice about
Léon Deubel's contributions to
Le Beffroi (1901-1913), dated from April - May
1975. Joined: announcement of Vasseur's death on Nov. 10, 1976, and a thank-you
card for condolences sent by Poupard.
Box 6, Folder 9
Voronca, Colomba,
1969,
1972
Scope and Content Note
card of 1969 Nov 18 asking to be accepted in the Association pour
l'étude de Dada et du Surréalisme, and a letter of resignation of
her function in that association, signed 1972 Jul 15.
Box 6, Folder 9
Vries, Her de, director of the Bureau de recherches
surréalistes,
1965-1972
Scope and Content Note
14 letters from 1965 Mar 3 to 1972 Jan 13. Correspondence between
specialists on the activities of the Dutch Surrealist group, centered around
exhibitions and the publication of the magazine,
Brumes Blondes. Vries is annoyed with the
"regular" Dutch writers and their "orthodox" interpretation of Surrealism.
Box 6, Folder 10
Tzara, Tristan,
ca. 1913-1965
Scope and Content Note
a file labeled by Poupard: "HAMLET / Tristan Tzara / Photocopie
du manuscrit," contains 21 pages of a manuscript in Romanian, mostly verses
with corrections, and small drawings. The latter may be by Tristan Ruia, a name
inscribed on the first page, which seems to be a sketch for the title page.
Written in the middle, under three verses, are the date 1913 and Tzara's
signature; in the lower section, the title
HAMLET de Tristan Tzara. 7 other half-page
photocopies are mounted on orange paper: one reproduces the upper third of the
title page, while the others contain poems and small drawings. Included: 3
clippings about Tzara by Sasa Pana (1947) from a Romanian magazine, clipping
from
Lettres Françaises, by Lacôte (1965),
and from
La Tribune de Genève (1968). Also included a
rare b/w group photograph of the founders of Romanian Dadaism: Tristan Tzara,
Ion Vinea, Marcel Janco and friends, taken in Bucharest in 1914.
Series II.
Christian (Georges Herbiet) letters and papers,
1917-1971
Physical Description:
ca. 75 items
Scope and Content Note
The second series includes correspondence, manuscripts,
photographs, books and journals related to Christian, a pseudonym for Georges
Herbiet, (1895-1969). Christian was an active writer, publisher and painter
during World War I and into the late 1920s. He knew many of the artists and
writers of the Parisian avant-garde and was particularly close to Francis
Picabia and Ezra Pound. The 48 letters addressed to Poupard from 1966 through
1968 recount Christian's version of the history of Dada - its successes and
failures. Along with the letters, this section also includes two books by
Christian,
Le Pérégrin dans l'ombre (poems, 1917)
and
Donnés sur André Gide et l'homme moderne
(essay, 1918), several journals to which he contributed and two unpublished
manuscripts
Souvenirs (76 typed pages) and
Soliloques d'un mécréant (206 manuscript
pages).
Box 7, Folder 1
Soliloques d'un
mécréant
,
1968-1969
Scope and Content Note
Autograph manuscript, 206 pages, dated by Poupard on the
folder. A series of short essays or reflections, in which Christian reminisces
about his past and current events.
Box 7, Folder 2
Souvenirs,
1967
Scope and Content Note
76 pages, typescript (densely typed), numbered and dated in
pencil by Poupard (Jan 22 to Jun 15 1967), including a pencil sketch by Christian
of Picabia's Chateau de Mai in Mougins.
In these memoirs, Christian discusses many of the topics and
personalities that made up the French avant-garde of the teens and twenties. He
appears to be responding to specific questions posed by Poupard. The memoirs
are written as discrete essays following no particular order; each is titled
and treats a particular theme or anecdote. Christian captures the exuberance of
a generation that came of age with the invention of the automobile and
electricity. Recalling the French tradition of literary portraiture, he paints
verbal portraits of many of his friends: Picabia, Crotti, Pound, Man Ray,
Suzanne Duchamp, Raymond Roussel and Breton. He
discusses, and defends many of the subjects that preoccupied the avant-garde,
such as drugs, Freud, Sacher-Masoch, sexuality, Bolshevism, and politics.
Acknowledging his predecessors, he lists the books and journals written before
World War I that influenced him and his generation. He devotes considerable
space to the time spent with Picabia in St. Raphael, describing his studio,
trips to the cinema as well as Picabia's work habits and a few of his
paintings. He speaks of Jean Crotti and Suzanne Duchamp who lived nearby.
Box 7, Folder 3
Letters from Christian to Poupard,
1966-1968
Scope and Content Note
20
autograph letters and 28 typed letters. The correspondence begins 1966 Apr 20 and ends 1968 Dec 18, a few
weeks before his death. In his seventies, Christian embraces Poupard's efforts
to reconstruct the history of Dada. Sharing personal anecdotes, venting
frustrations and explaining his position on various issues, Christian's letters
offer an eye-witness account of some of the events and personalities that
shaped the avant-garde movement in France. An intimate of Picabia, he recounts
how they met in Paris in 1919; he notes that their friendship ended abruptly in
1928. He met Ezra Pound in 1919, introduced him to Picabia and Cocteau, and did
the first French translations of Pound's
Cantos. He discusses the significance of Dada, its
origins and its adherents. He feels that Man Ray, whom he also knew, understood
the significance of the movement. Death haunts these letters - the death of his wife and of
many friends and acquaintances. Christian movingly narrates his last visit with
Marcel Duchamp that took place hours before the latter's death. He also
recounts the impact of Breton's death which
upset him. Copy of Christian's typed letter from Paris, 1965 Oct 20, to J.
Pauvert, who published Sanouillet's book
Dada à Paris. He writes three pages of
comments about the errors made by the author, setting the record straight about
his own biographical data and his involvement in the dadaist movement. This
letter, obviously communicated to Poupard, initiated the contact between them
that would result in Christian's contribution to the written history of this
period. [See folder 4 for original of this letter].
Box 7, Folder 4
Letters addressed to Christian
Box 7, Folder 4
Barrière, Marcel,
1919
Scope and Content Note
3 autograph letters from Paris, dated from 1919 Nov 19 to 1919 Dec 16. Joined: press-clippings. Barrière thanks Christian
for his
suggestions concerning Belgian, American and German publishers. He also
responds to Christian's inquiry about his pacifist beliefs.
Box 7, Folder 4
Contel, Jean-Charles,
1920 Mar 3
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 7, Folder 4
Daragnès,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 7, Folder 4
Delen, Ary J. J.,
1920 Jul 25
Scope and Content Note
1 letter from Antwerp. Joined: invitation card.
Box 7, Folder 4
Demeure, Fernand,
1918 Sep 2
Scope and Content Note
1 letter on letterhead: Casino Municipal Cannes.
Box 7, Folder 4
Doucet, Jacques (1853-1929, clothes designer, famous
collector and patron of the arts)
1917
Scope and Content Note
2 pneumatiques of 1917 Aug 27 and 1917 Oct 8.
Box 7, Folder 4
Dujardin, Edouard, 1922 Aug 15
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 7, Folder 4
Fabre, Emile,
1928 Mar 21
Scope and Content Note
1 letter. He published a letter from Christian in
Cannes L'Hiver without the latter's consent.
Box 7, Folder 4
Gabory, Georges,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter of 7/19.
Box 7, Folder 4
Kopf, E.C. Mrs., 1969-1971
Scope and Content Note
3 letters from addressed to Poupard
announcing the death of Christian and the fate of his personal papers.
Box 7, Folder 4
Pauvert, Jean-Jacques,
1965 Oct 20
Scope and Content Note
typed three-page letter. Pauvert published
Sanouillet's
Dada à Paris. Christian wants to rectify
many of Sanouillet's errors concerning himself and his involvement in the
dadaist movement. [See folder 3 for copy of this letter, apparently sent to
Poupard].
Box 7, Folder 4
Prins, Sonja (Dutch writer, editor of the literary
magazine
Front)
1930-1931
Scope and Content Note
13 letters from Amsterdam. The letters concern the journal's commitment to left-wing politics,
modern art and literature. Christian contributed three articles to
Front which are included in this collection.
Box 7, Folder 4
Raynaud, Ernest,
1919 Sep 14
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 7, Folder 4
Réval, Gabriëlle,
undated
Scope and Content Note
letter of 1/9, no year. Mme Réval introduces Christian
to Raoul Dufy, giving him Dufy's address.
Box 7, Folder 4
Ribère-Carcy, Gaston,
1918-1919
Scope and Content Note
2 letters and a card.
Box 7, Folder 4
Vérane, Léon,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter. He agrees to publish Christian's
sonnets.
Box 7, Folder 4
Walter, Jeanne,
1930 Jul 6
Scope and Content Note
copy of letter sent to Christian, copied by
Poupard.
Box 7, Folder 5
Photographs (b/w) and photocopies, ca.
1920-1940
Scope and Content Note
Two photographs (1921) of Christian and one (1920) of his
bookstore "Au Bel Exemplaire." Two photographed copies (1921) of a
poster-pamphlet written and drawn by Christian with an annotation on verso.
Three photographs (1947) of a portrait of Jacques Villon by Christian,
annotated on verso. Photograph (1933) of Jacques Villon taken by Christian. Two
photographs (1940) of Jacques Villon, his wife Gaby and Christian's wife
Geneviève. Photograph of a Villon landscape, annotated by Christian on
verso. Two photographed copies of a letter (1922, two pages) from Cocteau to
Christian. Photograph of letter (two pages) from Germaine Everling to
Christian, illustrated presumably by Picabia. Photographed copy of a page of
The Little Review with reproductions of three of
Christian's paintings. Photographed letter (1921) from Gilbert Seldes, managing
editor of
The Dial. Photographed copy of a short poem by
Picabia. Photograph of sketch of a woman's head - possibly from Picabia.
Negative of the Villon portrait.
Box 7, Folder 6
"De la
calomnie"
Scope and Content Note
2 handwritten copies (one in Poupard's hand) of the text of a
poster-pamphlet by Christian (not included in this collection), entitled "De la
calomnie", and addressed "aux auteurs des lettres anonymes". On the top of each
copy is inscribed: "Affiche en vitrine du Bel Exemplaire en 1922" (which was
Christian's bookstore).
Box 7, Folder 6
Plus de Cubisme.
Saint-Raphaël,
1922
Scope and Content Note
Published by Christian and Picabia on thin red stock.
Box 7, Folder 6
Précisions,
1922
Scope and Content Note
Text for a poster-pamphlet by Christian against slander (copy in
Poupard's hand). Notation at the end of the two-page text: "Affiche à la
vitrine du Bel Exemplaire à St. Raphaël en Février
1922."
Box 7, Folder 6
"Traité d'harmonie,"
1918-1960
Scope and Content Note
A file on a treatise of harmony on which Christian worked from
1918 to 1940. Typescript, 2 pages, "Notes sur la Pyramide de Chéops"; 12
drawings; 1 page of calculations. Includes a two page typescript about the
fundamentally anti-natural character of art, dated 1958/1960.
Flat file folder 1**
"Précisions,"
1922
Scope and Content Note
Large poster-pamphlet penciled by Christian, entitled
"Précisions," 2/1922, and a one page autograph manuscript of the text on
the poster. The poster was hung in the window of his bookstore as a reaction to
anonymous letters he had received.
Box 7, Folder 7
Christian.
Données sur André Gide et l'Homme
Moderne
(St. Raphaël, Librairie Les Tablettes, 1918),
exemplar No. 173
Box 7, Folder 7
Christian.
Le Pérégrin dans l'ombre (Saint
Raphaël, Edition des Tablettes, 1917)
Scope and Content Note
Joined: publicity leaflet
of
Les Tablettes, 4 pages, and a review of these
poems by A.M. Gossez (copied by Poupard) from
Les Pionniers de la Normandie, first year, no.
4-5, September-December 1918.
Box 7, Folder 7
Christian.
Livret d'heures. Douze sonnets
précieux
. (Christian, 1960)
Scope and Content Note
One of two typed copies of
an original version in 25 exemplars that Christian prepared in 1918 and
distributed personally.
Box 7, Folder 7
Frick, Louis de Gonzague.
Girandes (Paris, Edition du "Carnet Critique,"
1919)
Scope and Content Note
Inscribed by Frick to Christian. Joined: three review articles
of the poems and 7 autograph letters from Frick to Christian.
Box 7, Folder 8
"Le Mortel Ennui"
Scope and Content Note
Copy in Poupard's handwriting,
8 pages. Christian discusses the role of Surrealism in cultural
history.
Box 7, Folder 8
"Une visite à André Suarès, rue
Cassette, le 23 Octobre 1919"
Scope and Content Note
A five page typescript.
Box 7, Folder 8
"De l'immoralisme"
Scope and Content Note
15 pages manuscript, signed,
about Oscar Wilde and his play "Salomé," including a discussion of the
'historical necessity of immorality.'
Box 7, Folder 8
Notes regarding
Dada à Paris,
1967?
Scope and Content Note
Notes (typescript, 3 pages), correcting Sanouillet's
text about Christian in his book
Dada à Paris. They were included in the
letter to Sanouillet from 1967 Jan 8.
Box 8, Folder 1
Excerpts from
Les Tablettes,
1917
Scope and Content Note
Nine articles by Christian and a letter from Jean de Gourmont to
Christian, annotated by Poupard and assembled into pamphlet form.
Box 8, Folder 1
Etudes Critiques,
1919-1920
Scope and Content Note
articles by Christian from
La Revue de l'Epoque and
La Mêlée-Un and a
letter from Marcel Sauvage to Christian,1920 Sep 11. Assembled into pamphlet form
and entitled
Etudes Critiques.
Box 8, Folder 1
Articles by Christian and letter from Mm. Tailhade,
1919-1920,
1961
Scope and Content Note
from
L'Horizon, 1919,
L'Ordre Naturel, 1920,
Etudes Critiques and
Mercure de France, 1961, assembled into pamphlet
form and annotated by Poupard. Articles discuss Laurent Tailhade. The pamphlet
includes a letter from Mme Tailhade.
Box 8, Folder 1
Photocopies of articles by Christian,
1917-1919
Scope and Content Note
from
Les Tablettes, 1917,
La Nouvelle Revue Wallone, 1919 and
Les Pionniers de Normandie, 1918 given to
Poupard by J. Marchand in 1983. Marchand also includes photocopied tables of
content from two journals.
Box 8, Folder 1
Bibliographical and biographical notices on Christian
by Poupard
Scope and Content Note
6 pages manuscript.
Box 8, Folder 1
Catalogue des ouvrages en vente chez De Porter
Scope and Content Note
Including several notes by Christian on Dadaist style.
Box 8, Folder 1
Inventory of Christian's "books in poor
condition of conservation"
Scope and Content Note
handwritten.
Box 8, Folder 2
Les Pionniers de Normandie: Revue de
Littérature et d'Art
, Nos. 1-8,
1918-1919
Scope and Content Note
8 issues: Jan/Feb 1918 - May/June 1919
Box 8, Folder 3
Front: Anthologie du groupe moderne d'art de
Liège
,
1930-1931
4.
Scope and Content Note
3 issues: Dec 1930 (vol. 1), Feb 1931 (vol. 2), July 1931 (vol. 4).
Box 8, Folder 4
Les Tablettes littéraires et
artistiques
, Saint-Raphael,
1917,
1919
Scope and Content Note
3 issues: 1917 Nov 15, 1919 Feb 15 and
1919 Sep 15. Joined: copy in Poupard's hand of two poems by Benjamin
Péret published in
Les Tablettes.
Box 8, Folder 4
La nouvelle revue Wallonne, Paris,
1918 April-May
Scope and Content Note
Includes an article by Christian.
Series III.
Raoul Hausmann letters, drawings and
manuscripts,
1915-1971
Physical Description:
ca. 500 items
Scope and Content Note
The third series includes 338 letters written in French by Raoul
Hausmann (1886-1971) to Poupard between 1955 and 1970. Many of the letters
contain illustrated sketches. Materials also comprise Hausmann's letters to
Losfeld, Hugnet, and Henri Chopin, carbon copies of his articles, French
translations of Hausmann's Dada publications from the 1920's, and a small
collection of books, drawings, photographs and exhibition catalogues. Some of
these items date as early as 1915. Hausmann's correspondence was largely
solicited by Poupard while he was preparing a biography on Hausmann and a
monograph on the history of the Berlin Dada movement. Indeed, much of this
material re-appears in Hausmann's and Poupard's book
Courrier Dada (Paris, 1958). Hausmann furnishes
biographical information and criticisms, using this opportunity to discuss his
personal contribution to avant-garde artistic techniques. His writing style is
personal, highly resentful of his Dada colleagues, and tends toward
exaggeration.
Box 9, Folder 1
1 sketchbook, 1959 Nov
Scope and Content Note
with 7 crayon sketches by Hausmann,
signed and dedicated to Poupard.
Box 9, Folder 1
1 crayon sketch by Hausmann,
1957 Mar 18
Scope and Content Note
signed and dedicated to
Poupard.
Box 9, Folder 1
1 photograph of Hans Richter's ink sketch of Raoul
Hausmann,
1915
Box 9, Folder 1
3 photographs of artworks by Raoul Hausmann,
1915-1917
Scope and Content Note
Including "Portrait," 1915; L'heure verte" 1916 and "Le Chevauchée,"
1917.
Box 9, Folder 1
1 original woodcut print by Hausmann,
1959
Scope and Content Note
signed and
dedicated to Poupard.
Box 9, Folder 1
Sketch and letter to Poupard,
1959 Mar 27
Scope and Content Note
1 crayon sketch with a fragmentary letter to Poupard incorporated into the sketch.
Box 9, Folder 1
Color-marker sketches by Hausmann,
1969-1970
Scope and Content Note
10 sketches signed and dated.
Box 9, Folder 1
Photographs of Dada collage pieces,
undated
Scope and Content Note
5 b/w photographs, some signed
by Hausmann and dedicated to Poupard. In an autograph note to Poupard, Hausmann
claims to have designed the page, the wood cuts, and to have written the
phonetic poems, "Alitterel," " by A. M. Gossez Delitterel," and "Sublitterel,"
while Baader completed everything else.
Box 9, Folder 2
Sketches,
1957,
1959
Scope and Content Note
One pastel or chalk sketch dated Mar 18 and a charcoal
sketch dated 1959 Mar 27.
Box 9, Folder 3
Hausmann's manuscripts and
translations
Box 9, Folder 3
Pour un art élémentaire,
1956 Jun 16
Scope and Content Note
4 typewritten pages.
Box 9, Folder 3
Courrier Dada. Lettre sur le poème
phonétique
undated
Scope and Content Note
10 typewritten pages.
Box 9, Folder 3
Manifeste: Dada est plus que Dada
undated
Scope and Content Note
4
typewritten pages.
Box 9, Folder 3
Matériel de la peinture plastique, architecture
1918
Scope and Content Note
signed by Hausmann, one typewritten page.
Box 9, Folder 3
Retour à l'objectivité dans l'art
Summer 1920
Scope and Content Note
Manifeste, 3 typewritten pages.
Box 9, Folder 3
Retour de l'art à l'objet
Summer 1920
Scope and Content Note
3 typewritten pages.
Box 9, Folder 3
De Dada au néodadaïsme
1962 Jan
Scope and Content Note
2
typewritten pages.
Box 9, Folder 3
Note sur le Café des Westens
undated
Scope and Content Note
1
typewritten page.
Box 9, Folder 3
Le Meurtre prodigieux. Pantomime
1947
Scope and Content Note
2
typewritten pages.
Box 9, Folder 3
Der Dada, fragmentary translations from German
Scope and Content Note
including "Alittéraire," "Delittéraire," "Sublittéraire,"
"Erklärung Dada," and "Der Geist im Handumdrehen oder eine Dadalogie," 4
typewritten pages.
Box 9, Folder 3
Kurt Schwitters, "Letter from Kurt Schwitters to Raoul
Hausmann"
1947 Mar 29
Scope and Content Note
A French translation of Schwitters's letter to Hausmann
concerning the publication of their book
PIN. 4 typewritten pages.
Box 9, Folder 3
2 Hausmann typescripts,
1946-1947,
1955
Scope and Content Note
Sol-chant (1946 Aug 9), 2 typewritten pages.
"Farfala" (1947) signed by Hausmann and dedicated to Poupard on 1955 Aug 11, 1
typewritten page.
Box 9, Folder 3
"Dada Blanc"
undated
Scope and Content Note
signed by Hausmann (2 versions of
1 typewritten page each).
Box 9, Folder 3
"Au mastroquet du bistro du carrefour"
1960 Oct 23
Box 9, Folder 3
"La poupardiade"
1963 Jul 11
Scope and Content Note
playful, poetic honorary
dedicated to Poupard.
Box 9, Folder 3
"Dada jusqu'à aujourd'hui" ("Dada up to
Today")
1965
Box 9, Folder 3
"Cheval chat chien"
n.d.,
1966
Scope and Content Note
a poem sent to Poupard and
initialed and dated by Hausmann 1966, 2 typewritten pages.
Box 9, Folder 3
Notices biographiques
Scope and Content Note
"Liste des Matinées et
soirées du club Dada" (1918-1921), 9 typewritten pages. "Autres
manifestations Dada," 1 typewritten page.
Box 9, Folder 3
Letter from Hausmann (to Poupard?),
1960 Jul 4
Scope and Content Note
introducing an accompanying text concerning biographical details of Dada
members, 3 typewritten pages.
Box 9, Folder 3
Translations from German into French,
1963
Scope and Content Note
"Sprung aus der
Welt", in memory of Franz Jung, written for the journal
Konkret No. 3, Hamburg, 1963 (two pages); also
an one page excerpt from Jung's work "Der Weg nach Unten,"
1963 Jan 21.
Box 9, Folder 3
"Club Dada, Berlin 1918-1921"
1966 Jul 24
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten
pages.
Box 9, Folder 3
"Les 13 points du Dadaïsme"
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 typewritten
pages.
Box 9, Folder 3
"Les abus de la Foire Dada"
1921 Apr 21
Scope and Content Note
2 typewritten pages.
Box 9, Folder 3
Typewritten texts by diverse authors with Hausmann's
French translations,
undated,
1921
Scope and Content Note
Hans Richter, "Raoul Hausmann - Mr. Moi," 2
typewritten pages; Hugo Ball, "Journal Dada," 5 typewritten pages; Walter
Serner, "Dernier relâchement manifeste," 3 typewritten pages; Johannes
Baader, "Le cadavre vert--Dadistes contre Weimar," 3 typewritten pages with a
pencil note; Walter Mehring, "Indiscretions," 1 typewritten page; Raoul
Hausmann, "Prenez garde à la peinture," 2 typewritten pages; Hausmann,
"Rectification," one typewritten page. Hausmann, "Hannah Höch,"
(Biography), 1 typewritten page; Hausmann, "A la mémoire de Johannes
Baader," 4 typewritten pages of a biographical account of the artist, his
private life and publications. Hausmann, "Schwitters en voyage," 2 typewritten
pages of a biographical account of Schwitter's relationship with Hausmann and
Hannah Höch and their trip together to Prague (1921 Sep 4).
Box 9, Folder 3
"Dada à Berlin. Informations pour Monsieur
Poupard," with letter,
undated,
1956
Scope and Content Note
3 typewritten pages. Letter from Hausmann to Poupard, 1956 Jan 8, 3
typewritten pages concerning Dada in Berlin.
Box 9, Folder 3
"Publications Dada de Raoul Hausmann,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 page
typewritten list with Hausmann's signature.
Box 9, Folder 3
"Biographie de Raoul Hausmann par lui même,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 typewritten page.
Box 9, Folder 3
Other translations into French,
1918-1919
Scope and Content Note
"Première allocution Dada en Allemagne by Richard
Huelsenbeck 1918 Feb," 3 typewritten pages. "Les Six Soirées et
Matinées du Club Dada de Berlin, 1918-1919", 3 typewritten pages.
Hausmann, "A propos de la théorie du Dadaisme" (n.d.) 2 typewritten
pages.
Box 9, Folder 3
Correspondence de R. Hausmann (in
French),
1958,
1960-1961
Scope and Content Note
copies of letters from Hausmann to Losfeld (1958 Jan 10 and 1961 Apr 20) concerning Hausmann's watercolors for his book Courrier
Dada; 2
letters to Hugnet (11960 Oct 3 and 1961 Jan 8); one letter to Perilli (1960 Apr 25).
Box 9, Folder 4
L'immortellemorte,
1947,
1956
Scope and Content Note
preliminary copy (1947), with
a cover design and watercolor sketch by Hausmann and 5 watercolor/ink drawings
by Poupard. This material is accompanied by a six page typewritten text signed
by Hausmann and dedicated to Poupard on 1956 Jan 11. The text is largely composed
of invented words, alliteration and phonetic inventions.
Box 9, Folder 5
Brief biography of Raoul Hausmann by Poupard-Lieussou,
undated
Scope and Content Note
with 5 pages in Poupard's hand and 8 typewritten pages. [For the
complete published version see:
Raoul Hausmann,
Courrier Dada, Paris, 1958,
p.146-157.]
Box 9, Folder 5
1 contact sheet,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Contact sheet has 12 b/w photographs of Hausmann,
Poupard and guests, 1959. The mount is inscribed by Poupard: "Soiré. Raoul
Hausmann au "Soleil dans la Tête," dated 1959 May 19, and "Emission Hausmann.
Avant première" dated 1959 May 24.
Box 9, Folder 6
Letters from Hausmann to Poupard,
1955 May 10 - 1956 Jan 25
Scope and Content Note
19 typewritten letters. Hausmann provides Poupard with detailed information and
editorial agendas of various Dada publications including:
Der Gegener,
Die Freiestrasse,
MA,
Die Neue Jugend,
Der blutige Ernst, and
Fourierist. He supplies Poupard with examples of
automatic writing, discusses collaborative publications and expresses a
distinct interest in meeting André Breton since "much of his work is
also Surrealist." Hausmann calls himself the "intellectual foundation" of
Berlin Dada, a group which "far exceeded the Zurich movement." He outlines his
relationship with Schwitters, the pamphlet
MERZ, and Schwitters' invention of "presentism."
Hausmann also claims to have invented "automatic writing" in 1918, three years
before it appeared in France, and to have invented photomontage.
Individuals mentioned: Hannah Höch, Kurt Schwitters,
Kassak, Moholy-Nagy, Johannes Baader, Dr. Staub, Carl Einstein, Eggeling,
George Grosz, Seuphor and Wescher.
Box 9, Folder 7
Letters from Hausmann to Poupard,
1956 Jan 31 - 1956 Aug 29
Scope and Content Note
27 typewritten letters. Hausmann answers Poupard's questions concerning the history of
Dada, its members, splinter groups ("faux-Dadaists") and publications. He
provides a broad summary of Dada publications including the journals:
Das Borbell, the Belgium literary review
Quadrum, Franz Jung's
Die Neue Jugend, Huelsenbeck's
Lost Library, Moholy-Nagy and Kassak's journal
MA, the Zagreb journal
Zenith, and
Dadaka. Hausmann discusses the origin of phonetic
poetry, its impact on literature, and his documentary recording of Schwitters'
"Ursonate." He describes his transcriptions of Kurt Schwitter's correspondence
and interprets the publication of these letters as vital to the history of
20th-century literature.
Individuals mentioned: Hans Richter, Eric Satie, Schwitters,
Baader, Mehring, Baj, Colombo, Dangelo, Muller, Schulze, Kraus, Max Ernst,
Seuphor, Bloc, Mesens, Hagenbach, Huelsenbeck, Dr. Goldschmidt, Isou, Grohmann,
Rudolf Schlichter; Stuckenschmidt.
Box 9, Folder 8
Letters from Hausmann to Poupard,
1956 Sep 7 - 1957 Feb 16
Scope and Content Note
19 typewritten letters. At this point the correspondence assumes a more familiar tone
and recounts Hausmann's contributions to publishers and gallery owners as well
as detailed biographical information on individual members of the Dada circle.
He recounts the precise historical events surrounding the original "Dada
Evenings" where he recited his first phonetic poem in the Café Austria
(June, 1918). The majority of these letters inform Poupard of Hausmann's
current projects, such as the publication of
PIN and the recording of Kurt Schwitters'
"Ursonate." Hausmann insists that it was he and not Huelsenbeck who wrote the
first Dada manifestoes.
Individuals mentioned: Citroen, Jaguer, Massacrasso, Laszlo,
Paul Havilland, Sanouillet, Goetz-Kreutz, Hugnet, Flaker, Schmalhausen,
Stuckenschmidt, Schlichter, George Grosz, Hans Arp and Otto Dix.
Box 9, Folder 9
Letters from Hausmann to Poupard,
1957 Feb 25 - 1957 Jul 4
Scope and Content Note
18 typewritten letters and 1 attached newspaper clipping. Hausmann recounts Huelsenbeck's early contributions to Dada.
While confirming the historical accounts in Heulsenbeck's book (
Mit Witz, Licht und Grütze (Wiesbaden,
1957), Hausmann maintains that Huelsenbeck employed the techniques of
a "Nazi Gauleiter." He provides historical details on Surrealist painting in
Germany and claims that "he and others" employed psychoanalytical theory in art
and sociology between 1916-1920. Hausmann also sketches a portrait of the
Expressionist painter Arthur Segal, asserting that Segal invented "the eye
catcher" in painting. Attached to this letter is a newspaper article with a
positive review of Hausmann's film "The man who is afraid of bombs."
Individuals mentioned include: Tzara, Hugnet, Iliazd, Laszlo,
Arp, Huelsenbeck, Ball, Szittya, Jaguer, Hans Richter, Emmy Hennings, Seuphor,
Kurt Schwitters, Janco, Verkauf, Max Ernst, Bellmer, Brauner, Oelze, Hannah
Höch, Franz Roh.
Box 9, Folder 10
Letters from Hausmann to Poupard and to Losfeld,
1957 Jul 9 - 1957 Dec 22
Scope and Content Note
16 typewritten letters from Hausmann to Poupard, and 2
letters to Losfeld. Familiar letters concerning
Hausmann's publications, his criticisms and Poupard's inquiries about Dada
figures, particularly those mentioned in Huelsenbeck's book
Dada Almanach. Poupard and Hausmann discuss the
Hausmann bibliography, Hausmann's criticisms of Freiland Dada, Meyer's
denunciation of Baader, and Hausmann's "existentialist" manifestoes including:
"Dada is more than Dada," "Victoire, Triomphe, Tabac et Harricots," and
"Hanneton vole."
Individuals mentioned include: Losfeld, Huelsenbeck, Bolliger,
Bernotte, Sanouillet, Valençay, K. O. Goetz, Albertus Magnus, Hamann,
Tschinkel, Marcel Jean, Koenig, Iliazd, Losfeld, Tzara, Janco-Verkauf, Hannah
Höch, Heidkamp, Baader, Bolliger, A. R. Meyer, Perilli, Seuphor, Hans
Richter.
Box 9, Folder 11
Letters from Hausmann to Poupard,
1957 Dec 27 - 1958 Apr 27
Scope and Content Note
15 typewritten letters. Hausmann provides detailed information on several figures
associated with the Dada movement including: Otto Dix and how he was invited by
Grosz to participate in the Dada Fair 1920; Arthur Segal, who exhibited at the
Dada Gallery in Zurich (1919-1920) but was denied the title "Dadaist," as was
Hannah Höch. Hausmann also evaluates Arp's later work in which Arp
presents himself as "ascetic," "saint," and "aesthete." Hausmann considers the
book on Dada by Hugnet, Huelsenbeck, and Verkauf to be totally false. He
describes editing the final galleys of his book
Hyle, and an 8 minute LP recording he made of his
poems "fmsbw" and "The Nightmare."
Individuals mentioned: Otto Dix, Arthur Segal, Hannah
Höch, Berlewi, Carl Laszlo, Heta Hausmann, Malik-Verlag, Losfeld, Koenig,
Naudaud, Huelsenbeck, Bolliger, Bernotte, Sanouillet, Valençay, K. O.
Goetz, Albertus Magnus, Hamann, Tschinkel, Marcel Jean, Koenig, Iliazd, Tzara,
Janco-Verkauf, Heidkamp, Baader, Bolliger, A. R. Meyer , Gerhard Preiss, Karl
Doehmann, Seuphor, Hans Richter, Nadaud, Matarasso, Domela, André
Breton, Antoine Artaud, Martin Henri.
Box 9, Folder 12
Letters from Hausmann to Poupard, radio broadcast transcript, ink sketch,
1958-1959
Scope and Content Note
A typewritten transcription of a radio broadcast by A.
Weber reviewing Hausmann's
Courrier Dada (Radio-Limoges, Monday, 1958 Sep 8);
27 typewritten letters from Hausmann to Poupard dated 1958 May 5 - 1959 Aug 10, one with
ink sketch.
Hausmann reflects on the significance of his book, on the
conservative political climate in France and how it might prejudice the
reception of
Courrier Dada. He expresses his continued desire
to contact Marcel Duchamp and is surprised to hear of the publication of the
Arp-Huelsenbeck-Tzara book,
Die Dada Triumvirate.
Individuals mentioned: Franz Jung, Richard Oehring, Hannah
Höch, Scheebert, Ball, Schwitters, Losfeld, Iliazd, Dr. Schonauer,
Löffelholz, Benjamin Péret, Perilli, Jaguer, Goetz, Duchamp, Man
Ray, Huelsenbeck, Arp, Tzara, Sanouillet, Mehring, Arnauld, Richter,
Heartfield, Bolliger, Valançay; Ribemont-Dessaignes, Baader, Rathke,
Laszlo and Jean Jacques Lévêque.
Box 9, Folder 13
Letters from Hausmann to Poupard and to Huget,
1959-1960
Scope and Content Note
2
typewritten letters to Hugnet (1960 Apr 4 and 1960 Apr 13); 23 letters from
Hausmann to Poupard dated 1959 Sep 3 - 1960 Jul 21. Hausmann makes light of Jean Tinguely's "machine for making
abstract painting" and its use by Duchamp, Arp, Man Ray and Hartung. He
outlines his recent comedy "Palissander et Melasse." Hausmann responds to
Hugnet's criticisms that he was a "social revolutionary" and his works were
"disorganized" and "without style." In response, Hausmann claims to have
invented automatic writing, phonetic poetry, photomontage, the ready-made and,
with Van Doesburg, "pre-existentialism" in his "Manifesto Against the Weimar
Spirit" (1918) and "Dada is more than Dada" (1920).
Individuals mentioned: Tinguely, Burri, Schumacher, Franz Roh,
Hugnet, Löffelholz, Marcel Jean, Huelsenbeck, Mehring, Carl Friedrich
Clause, Ernst Ruhmer, Ehrenburg, Arnauld, J.J. Lévêque, Marcel
Jean, Mehring, Richter, Mme. Clara Malraux; Baader, Rubiner, Ball, Verkauf,
Seibart, Ludwig Rubiner.
Box 10, Folder 1
Letters from Hausmann to Poupard,
1960 Jul 8 - 1962 Apr 3
Scope and Content Note
36 typewritten letters. Hausmann summarizes Hannah Höch's reflections on the
Dadaists and himself in
Der Monat. He also appears ready to end his
on-going dispute with Huelsenbeck and revels in his personal contributions to
"Neodadaism," the publication of his comedy "Palissandre and Melasse," and his
books,
Siebensachen (Stuttgart, 1961) and
Sprechspäne (Flensberg-Gluecksburg,
1962).
Individuals mentioned include: Franz Roh, Hugnet, Hannah
Höch, Huelsenbeck , Jaguer, Breton, Henri Michaux, Perilli, Franz Jung,
Schwitters, E. F. Haag, Schmalenbach, Anselm Ruest ("Max"); Raabe, Zeller,
Pinthus, Hans Richter, Scheerbart, Baader, Josephson, Karpel, Lemaître,
Isidore Isou, Hugo Ball and Arnaud.
Box 10, Folder 2
Letters from Hausmann to Poupard,
1962 Apr 2 - 1963 May 30
Scope and Content Note
26 typewritten letters. Hausmann discusses the criticism of his recent works, his
contributions to phonetic poetry and to the anthology on "Neo-Dada." He
discusses the significance of several artists, writers and Neo-Dada art
movements. He describes the literary culture of the time as torpid and
anti-polemical, and recent art groups as totally derivative or ignorant of his
contribution.
Individuals mentioned: Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg,
Freiestrasse, Franz Pfemfert, Flake, Glauser, Doehmann, Stuckenschimdt, Carl
Einstein, Günter Grass, Ljubomir Micic, Polianski, François Bayle,
Noël Arnaud, Koenig, Franz Jung, Pierre Restany, Hains, Villeglé,
DuFrène, Rotella, Vostell, Perilli, Byren.
Box 10, Folder 3
Letters from Hausmann to Poupard,
1963-1964
Scope and Content Note
30 typewritten letters dated
1963 Jul 11 - 1964 Nov 2, and a copy of his letter to Henri Chopin dated
1964 May 30. Hausmann discusses the exhibition and sale of his work in
Italy and Austria, his research interests in Russian avant-garde art,
recordings of his poetry, and his recent collages. Themes include Hausmann's
publication of "Mutation des Langues" in the journals
Les Lettres and
Nesyo, and "Dadaism and Today's Avant-Garde"
(TLS). Hausmann complains about his editors, Hannah Höch's article in the
journal
Arts, the "imitators of Dada," and Huelsensbeck's
most recent book.
Individuals mentioned include: Henri Chopin, Tzara's death,
Losfeld, Pierre Garnier, Leon Trotsky, Hannah Höch, Carl Friedrich Clause,
Pierre Albert-Birot, Ljubomir Micic, Polianski, Sanouillet, Allmenand,
Huelsenbeck, Ferdinand Kriwet, Mme Boullier and Richter.
Box 10, Folder 4
Letters from Hausmann to Poupard,
1964 Nov 8 - 1966 Mar 15
Scope and Content Note
23 typewritten letters. Hausmann recounts the disastrous consequences of the "Oxford
exhibition" at Christ Church organized by Charles Cameron. Hausmann sent 11
works to this exhibit of "concrete and phonetic poetry" which was burglarized
and destroyed by students on the night of June 10, 1965. He writes of other
exhibits in which he participated, including the 50th anniversary exhibition of
Dada in Zurich, the Dada exhibition in Milan (Spring, 1966), the Austrian
exhibition on Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art "Dada up to Today" (Linz, 1965), an
exhibit at the Modern Museum in Stockholm (2/1966). He makes recommendations
for Poupard's proposed exhibit on Dada art. Hausmann remains contemptuous of
plans to found a neo-dadaist society, despite Tzara's and Beher's intention to
remain faithful to the Dada movement's spirit. He continues to criticize
Huelsenbeck's claims concerning the invention of avant-garde techniques.
Individuals mentioned include: Sanouillet, Beher, Marthe
Prévot, Serner, Ball, Arp, Huelsenbeck, Baader, Schmalenbach, Dr. Raabe,
Marc Le Bot, Perilli, Ferdinand Kriwet, Vence, Aragon, Hans Richter, Henri
Chopin, Roland Penrose, Jasia Reichardt, Bloch, Mike Weaver,
Ribemont-Dessaignes, Franz Jung, Benjamin Goriély, Iliazd, Berlewi,
Kandinsky, Stenvert, Charles Cameron, Belloli, Péret, Arrigo Lora
Totino, Jef Golyscheff, Mrs. Vetter, Dörtner, Franz Jung, Schwarz,
Losfeld, Steinert, Roh, Eisenwerth, Ernst Jandl, Marcel Janco, Schwitters,
Forster, Hans Bott, Koenig, Jaguer, Mrs. Vordenberg, George Grosz, Luthy,
Baumann, Oppenheimer, Pierre Albert-Birot, Crotti and Emmy Hennings.
Box 10, Folder 5
Letters from Hausmann to Poupard,
1966-1968
Scope and Content Note
28 typewritten letters dated
3/20/1966 Mar 20 - 1968 Oct 25, and a copy of his letter to Bernard Dorival from
1966 Dec 6. Hausmann discusses the organization of Poupard's intended
exhibition on Dada art. He defines Dada as a "spiritual and moral attitude" and
not a matter of chance participation. Hausmann describes his association with
Piscator until 1920 and Piscator's theatrical innovations, communist sympathies
and disrespect for his actors. Hausmann also describes his 30 minute LP
recording of phonetic poetry.
Individuals mentioned: Emmy Hennings, Ernst Toller, Erwin
Piscator, Franz Jung, Pascal Colard, Mehring, Felix Andreas Baumann, Bernard
Doribal, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Dick Higgins, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Franz
Mehring, Hannah Höch, Golycheff, Maurice Lemaître, Isadore Isou,
Henri Chopin, Hoog, Paul de Vree, Schwitters, Werner Schmalenbach.
Box 10, Folder 6
Letters from Hausmann to Poupard,
1968-1969
Scope and Content Note
18 typewritten letters dated 1968 Nov 8 - 1969 Jun 1; a six page typewritten copy of interview questions prepared by
the office of French Radio and Television (ORTF), and a typewritten letter to
Mr. Malina dated 1969 Feb 10. Hausmann discusses recent articles and his current montage
"Gurk" in the exhibit "The Machine" in New York. J. J. Marchand of ORTF
contacted him concerning a television broadcast on Dada in Zurich, Berlin and
Köln (5/1969). In this interview Hausmann reiterates his understanding of
the historical development of Dada and expresses his antipathy for
Huelsenbeck.
Individuals mentioned include: J. L. Brau, Walter Lewine,
Villeglé, Malina, Petithory, J. J. Marchand, George Hugnet, Hannah
Höch, Hans Richter, Mlle. Bujot and Mme. Marguerite Arp.
Box 10, Folder 7
Letters from Hausmann to Poupard,
1969 Jul 27 - 1970 Dec 6
Scope and Content Note
14 typewritten letters and a copy of a typewritten letter from Hausmann to the
editors of
Cahiers. Topics include: the publication of his books
La Sensorialité excentrique (Cambridge,
1970) and
Am Anfang war Dada (University of Stockholm, and
later in Steinbach/Giessen, 1972),
Hara, Hara, Hara (Anabas, Berlin, reprint of his
1921 book). His private affairs are becoming more difficult due to illness. He
comments on Poupard's television broadcasts on Dada.
Individuals mentioned include: Mme. Boullier, Grobety, Jef
Golyscheff, Visat, Vogel, Arturo Schwarz, Seibart, Morgenstern, Klebnikov,
Kroutchenyck, Hugo Ball, Kurt Schwitters, Iliazd, Henri Chopin, Walter Serner,
Richter.
Box 10, Folder 8
Pneumatique cards (Paris) from Hausmann to Poupard
Scope and Content Note
with greetings and personal appointments.
Box 10, Folder 8
New year's greetings to
Poupard,
1956
Scope and Content Note
1 color print.
Box 10, Folder 8
Cards to Poupard
Scope and Content Note
13 cards (with drawings or photo
reproductions) with personal greetings and
instructions.
Box 10, Folder 8
Poem by Hausmann,
1957 Aug 20
Scope and Content Note
typewritten poem entitled
"Terrepiedsnuages" (earth, feet, clouds), dated.
Box 10, Folder 8
Letters and card from Hausmann to
Mme Lieussou,
1957 Jul 25,
1963 Jul 4
Scope and Content Note
4 typewritten letters and one card from Hausmann to
Mme Lieussou ("Iseult with the white hands"). He describes his troubles with the editors of his book
Courier Dada who are trying to change his French
text beyond any reasonable limits. He complains of being too busy to write a
funny melodrama about Palissandre and Melasse. He reminisces about his little
house in Ibiza, and asks Mme Lieussou to convey greetings to Poupard
("pup-art").
Individuals mentioned include: Sanouillet, Huelsenbeck and
Richter.
Box 10, Folder 9
Letters to Hausmann,
1962,
1958,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Copies of 3 typewritten letters to Hausmann from
Roland Penrose (1962 Apr 6), Sanouillet (1958 Jan 1) and H. Leveque (1959 Mar 5). The former apologizes for his part
in the revision of
Hausmann's book
Courier Dada. Leveque sends the contract regarding
Hausmann's exhibition at the gallery Le Soleil dans la Tête.
Box 10, Folder 9
One pencil drawing by
Poupard-Lieussou,
undated
Box 10, Folder 9
16 letters from Marthe Prévot to
Poupard,
1971 Feb 7 - 1971 Oct 15
Scope and Content Note
Her typed letters describe Hausmann's death and funeral ceremonies,
the distribution of news of his death, the care and protection of Hausmann's
publications and works. Numerous editors contacted her to publish Hausmann's
works without offers of royalties. She is distressed and appeals to Poupard for
advice on questions of sale, copyright, royalties, further publications and
exhibitions.
Individuals mentioned include: Budik, Hugnet, Mehring,
Richter, Huelsenbeck, Gabrielle Mazzotta, John Elderfield, Arturo Schwarz, Jo
Verbugghen, Françoise Nora, Blaise Gautier and Henri Chopin.
Box 12*, Folder 2
Woodblock print by Hausmann,
1951
Scope and Content Note
(5 of 25) dedicated to
Poupard.
Box 12*, Folder 3
sound recording : 33 rpm,
1958
Scope and Content Note
Vinyl. Made by Poupard of a
few of Hausmann's poèmes phonétiques. Poupard made five records
in April 1958 presumably from another recording.
Series IV.
Pierre de Massot letters and manuscripts,
1905-1968
Physical Description:
ca. 150 items
Scope and Content Note
The fourth series includes correspondence, manuscripts,
photographs and drawings from the writer and poet Pierre de Massot (1900-1969).
The correspondence comprises 79 letters written by Massot to Poupard from 1956
to 1968. In the letters Massot gives detailed information about his life and
participation in the Dada movement. This section also contains a few of
Massot's published manuscripts such as
André Breton le septembriseur and
De pére inconnu as well as unpublished
manuscripts, notably his
Cahier noir, a kind of pseudo-diary. There are also
some 20 black and white photographs of Massot, his family, various actresses
and dancers.
Box 11, Folder 1
79 letters from Massot to Poupard,
1956 Feb 2 - 1968 Apr 11
Scope and Content Note
23 holograph
letters, 53 typed letters and 3 cards signed. The correspondence begins rather hesitantly. Massot feels that
he has little to contribute to Poupard's project. But after a few canceled
appointments, Massot discovers interesting documents such as photos and
articles in his personal collection. He suggests other people, such as Jean
Crotti and Suzanne Duchamp whom Poupard might contact. Massot greatly admires
Picabia, Duchamp and Breton, and was crushed by the latter's premature death.
The letters not only offer a good amount of historical information concerning
the Dada movement, they also provide a glimpse of the personality and
temperament of one of its lesser known participants. As in his journal and
unpublished prose, Massot is much concerned with death: the deaths of friends
punctuate several of the letters.
Box 11, Folder 2
Letters to Massot,
1947,
1961
Scope and Content Note
letters from Jacques-Henri Lévesque
(1947 Mar 4) and Michel Perrin (1961 Mar 15), with praise for his poetry. A postcard
from Olga Picabia (n.d.), looking forward to seeing him again as soon as she is
back to Paris.
Box 11, Folder 3
Le Cahier Noir,
1917-1968
Scope and Content Note
Le Cahier Noir is an intimate journal that Massot
kept over many years. He seems to have left Poupard two selected excerpts: a 43
page typescript covering the years 1961 to 1967, and a manuscript copied by
Poupard of excerpts from the years 1917 to 1920. In his will, Massot directed
his son to burn the
Cahiers.
Box 11, Folder 3
Extrait d'un Cahier Noir (I),
1968 Jul 6,
1960 Nov 15
Scope and Content Note
Typescript, 43 pages and a title page with an inscription from
Massot to Poupard, dated 1968 Jul 6. Tipped onto the title page is a colored ink
and pencil drawing, inscribed and dated 1960 Nov 15. Several pages are illustrated
with erotic clippings from magazines and three drawings (two of penises) by
Massot. Joined: a magazine clipping of Jane Fonda as Barbarella is tipped on a
sheet of yellow construction paper.
In these relatively short and often daily entries, Massot
notes his readings (Etiemble, Léautaud, Cendrars, Faulkner), mentions
who he visits (Olga Picabia, Montherlant, Pegeen, Duchamp), remembers the
anniversary of his wife's death, retells erotic dreams and mourns the passing
of many friends (Breton, Villon and Pegeen). Seemingly random, Massot has in
fact artfully chosen his excerpts, forming them into a kind of extended poem en
prose about himself, the people he knew and the world they inhabited.
Box 11, Folder 3
Extrait d'un cahier noir (II)
1917-1921
Scope and Content Note
11 pages copied by Poupard, dated from 1917 to 1921. A series
of vignettes that recapture the excitement of a young provincial who finds
himself in the middle of the Parisian avant-garde. For instance, Massot writes
of his first trip to Paris to see
Parade, of his friendship with Gonzague-Frick, of
a sexy and frightening encounter with Isadora Duncan. Massot seems to have met
most of the prominent writers and artists of the period; he mentions Picabia,
Pound, Duchamp, Cocteau, Breton, Tzara, Satie and many others. He describes an
intellectual, fast-paced and, indeed, decadent world that he enjoys
immensely.
Box 11, Folder 4
"Permis d'inhumer,"
1905-1952
Scope and Content Note
4 pages typescript, dated. Nineteen
paragraphs depicting scenes of death, often violent, end tersely with the
contemplation of his own mortality.
Box 11, Folder 4
André Breton, le
septembriseur
,
1967 Mar 4
Scope and Content Note
2 pages of the autograph manuscript of his book.
Box 11, Folder 4
"Jane au concile par Jane Rouch," undated
Scope and Content Note
Typescript, one page, no date. Book review.
Box 11, Folder 4
""Au vrai Fontainebleau (Inedit)"
1933-1938
Scope and Content Note
Typescript, 4 pages. Dedicated to his son, presumably
an autobiographical story of the time that Massot spent working in a cream
factory.
Box 11, Folder 4
Mots clés de mensonges,
, 1950-1953
Scope and Content Note
Typescript, 9 pages. Poems and fragments of
poems, dated like entries in a diary, resembles an account book.
Box 11, Folder 4
Aragon: Les yeux de la
mémoire
Scope and Content Note
An essay on Aragon. Typescript, six pages, with autograph additions on the last
two pages.
Box 11, Folder 4
"Divers poèmes de P. de
Massot,"
1941-1964
Scope and Content Note
dossier compiled by Poupard of nine poems by Massot dated from
1941 to 1964.
Hommage à Picasso has handwritten notes all
over the page.
Box 11, Folder 4
Four drawings
Scope and Content Note
one pen and colored pencil on paper of a woman seated in an
armchair, and three drawings depicting the same woman dancing in a kind of
Folies Bergères show.
Box 11, Folder 5
De père inconnu
Scope and Content Note
Typescript of Massot's novel,
De Père Inconnu:
Récit paysan
, 169 pages. In the socialist realism tradition of Sand and
Zola, Massot tells the sad tale of Lucienne Clermontel and her son Jean-Louis.
[See also Box 12*, folder 1].
Box 11, Folder 6
Autograph will,
1951 Oct 1
Scope and Content Note
Signed, with typed
sheet of instructions how to write a last will.
Box 11, Folder 6
Membership card for the Association française
des Amis de l'Union Sovetique,
1937
Box 11, Folder 6
Membership card for the Centre d'études
supérieures d'assurances,
1941
Scope and Content Note
with identification
photograph.
Box 11, Folder 6
Membership card for Ceux de la
libération-Vengeance, stamped 2/27/45, with identification
photograph.
Box 11, Folder 6
Membership card for the Comité National des
Ecrivains (CNE),
1951
Scope and Content Note
with identification photograph.
Box 11, Folder 7
Bio-bibliography by Poupard on Massot's life and
publications
Box 11, Folder 7
Handwritten copies by Poupard of 22 poems and a review
of
Relâche,
1924
Box 11, Folder 7
Newspaper clippings with articles published by Massot,
1932-1968
Scope and Content Note
"Qu'est-ce qu'un Ecrivain prolétarien?",
"L'Université républicaine," 2/15/32. Essay on André
Breton in
Les Nouvelles Litéraires, 9/20/62. Sixteen
articles entitled "Cultivons notre jardin, cultivons nos pensées,"
published in
La Vie du rail under the pseudonym
Pangloss.
Box 11, Folder 8
Group portrait of a class at the Externat St.
Joseph, includes Massot seated last on left,
1910 Nov
Box 11, Folder 8
Seven portraits of Massot, family and friends
1910-1968
Box 11, Folder 8
Group portrait of employees of RKO, includes
Massot,
1948
Box 11, Folder 8
Portrait of Robbie de Massot with a poem by Massot on
verso, dated
1950 Apr
Box 11, Folder 8
Portrait of Massot and Poupard, dated by Poupard
Jan 1968
Box 11, Folder 8
Portrait of an unknown couple ascending stairs at an
opera or theater premiere,
undated
Box 11, Folder 8
Marthe Chenal,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Two photographs of the installation of a commemorative
plaque for the singer Marthe Chenal. With autograph letter [signed by
unidentified] thanking Massot for his participation, and a typescript copy of
Massot's speech.
Box 11, Folder 8
Portrait of Massot,
1926
Scope and Content Note
with autograph inscription to his
parents.
Box 11, Folder 8
Portrait of a man in Oriental costume,
1892,
1955
Scope and Content Note
photograph entitled
"Radhamiste" and dated 1892. The poem "Tercets à la mémoire
d'Edouard de Max" by Massot is tipped onto verso and dated March
1955.
Box 11, Folder 8
Ten publicity portraits of actresses and dancers
Scope and Content Note
most
are dated, and a few are inscribed to Massot. [He worked for a magazine called
Paris Music-Hall for three
years].
Box 12*, Folder 1
De père inconnu; récit paysan, in
the serial
L'Humanité,
1929 Jun-Jul
