NANTES (44) - SURREALISM - Jacques BARON (1905-1986, Dadaist - Lot 270

NANTES (44) - SURREALISM - Jacques BARON (1905-1986, Dadaist and Surrealist poet nicknamed "the Rimbaud of Surrealism") / Autograph correspondence postcard signed, from Neuilly-sur-Seine, December 13, 1944, to American journalist Florence Gilliam in New York City, postage and censorship stamp (he had founded with her in 1933 the magazine "Gargoyle", the first English art and literature journal published on the continent), superb text: He's received her card and says he's "happy as anything to hear from you", "Well done on the book at Dutton's! I can't wait to read it", "I'm finishing a novel on Marché noir", "All our friends are safe and well, except Desnos, deported to Germany", "They've confirmed that Saint-Exupéry is dead. Giraudoux's death is also true, but the rumors spread by Aragon have not been confirmed", "I'm a reporter for Le Populaire and I'm in charge of a radio, press and film agency; there'll be a lot of work here in a while, but for the moment everything is lacking", "Paris hasn't suffered too much, but everything else is in a pitiful state. Nantes, which I so wanted to show you, has been razed to the ground. My mother's house demolished. Rue de Sablonville (nb: in Neuilly), we were all robbed when I was in Marseille", "Ai écrit un poème pour toi", "Bonne pièce Anouilh : Antigone" / Enclosed: typescript by Florence Gilliam of Jacques Baron's poem, begun in July 1944 and completed on July 29, 1946 (5 p in-4)