1955 limited edition of the book "L´Or", the main work of the French poet Blaise Cendrars, with a dedication.
Book "L´Or" (The Gold) by Blaise Cendrars with a dedication from the author.
Limited edition 1955, printed in Switzerland.
15 cm x 22 cm.
210 pages.
It comes with a letter explaining precisely the context of this dedication.
Excellent condition of conservation.
Unique piece.
Marie-Louise Bürger very cordial greetings by Blaise Cendrars
Blaise Cendrars (1887 - 1961) was a Swiss novelist and poet, naturalized French. Renowned for his descriptions of real or imaginary travels, Cendrars made seven visits to Brazil.The first of these took place in 1924. He made friends with great Brazilian artists - writers, musicians and painters - in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. He also went to Minas Gerais with Mário De Andrade and Tarsila De Amaral, awakening the interest of modernists - until then fascinated by Europe - in the baroque art of the state of Minas Gerais, both regional and traditional.
It was a trip with Blaise Cendrars during Carnival that gave Tarsila Do Amaral "a taste for the popular", and she fell in love with the poetry of the favelas and the humble people. A great friend of the painter, Cendrars also wrote the texts for the catalogue of Tarsila's first exhibition in Paris, in 1926.
"L'Or" is the best-known work, translated worldwide, by Blaise Cendrars. Paul Eluard considered him one of the greatest French poets of the 20th century. Here we have a limited edition in excellent condition, completed by a beautiful dedication from the "most Brazilian" French writer of the 20th century. As an additional very interesting detail, we have enclosed a letter from the person who obtained the autograph explaining the circumstances of the meeting with Blaise Cendrars.
