CHAR René - Lot 90

CHAR René THE UNKNOWABLE ESSENTIAL. POEM ILLUSTRATED BY JEAN VILLERI. UNIQUE BOOK. SIGNED. Cannes, May 1937. 9 pages in-8 in sheets, preserved envelope. All under original cover hand-illustrated by Villeri and titled by René Char. 7 pages of poems by René Char illustrated with original ink drawings in the text by Jean Villeri and a title page, illustrated and titled. Cris guérisseurs en colliers de persiennes Ruisselle au jour chaîne intense Entre ombre et boue la soif ondule Tu jouis au zénith de la nappe Colonne de fraîcheur... The last illustrated page of a Grand Prix de Paris lottery ticket is annotated by René Char: This unique copy of the graffiti type was specially composed on a wreckwood table for my friends Irène Hamoir Jean Scutenaire in the warm animation of their fraternal thoughts. Mougins June 27, 1937. René Char".