Max JACOB. Autograph poem with drawing, Une nuit de Verlaine; 1page in-4 with drawing on verso (21x27cm).
Poem of 18 lines, collected in L'Homme de cristal (1967, p.82). It is dedicated here "to Mme Léon Merle de Beaufort".
"Rain a whole night
- for Adam's fault -
makes desert the tarmac
God provides a skylight
and the backs of the shutters
my cap and my raglan"...
Verso, large pen and wash drawing: circus scene: acrobat, a young girl near a cannon, and two Afghan greyhounds.
Live Wednesday 11 March・14:00 (Europe/Paris)
Lot no. 471

Max JACOB. Autograph poem with drawing, Une nuit de Verlaine; 1page in-4 with drawing on verso (21x27cm). Poem of 18 lines, collected in L'Homme de cristal (1967, p.82). It is dedicated here "to Mme Léon Merle de Beaufort". "Rain a whole night - for Adam's fault - makes desert the tarmac God provides a skylight and the backs of the shutters my cap and my raglan"... Verso, large pen and wash drawing: circus scene: acrobat, a young girl near a cannon, and two Afghan greyhounds.

Estimate
€800 - €1,000
Result
€923
Buyer's premium
30%
Max JACOB. Autograph poem with drawing, Une nuit de Verlaine; 1page in-4 with drawing on verso (21x27cm). Poem of 18 lines, collected in L'Homme de cristal (1967, p.82). It is dedicated here "to Mme Léon Merle de Beaufort". "Rain a whole night - for Adam's fault - makes desert the tarmac God provides a skylight and the backs of the shutters my cap and my raglan"... Verso, large pen and wash drawing: circus scene: acrobat, a young girl near a cannon, and two Afghan greyhounds.
Sale Wednesday 11 March・14:00 (Europe/Paris)
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