SURREALISM - Georges HEINEN(1914-1973,Egyptian surrealist jo - Lot 385

SURREALISM - Georges HEINEN(1914-1973,Egyptian surrealist journalist, writer and poet)/ Correspondence addressed to the French woman of lettersMarcelle SIBON(1894-1980, translator of Graham Green): 1°) Autograph postcard signed,Cairo, 1940s, the card is a reproduction of a painting by Egyptian painter Mahmoud Saïd, "La Pêche miraculeuse", Georges Heinen sends a surreal message, "In nostalgia for the window that opened so easily onto the fresh pulp of Paris" - 2°) Greeting card from "Cigarettes Nestor Gianaclis" of Cairo, Egypt, of which Georges Heinen was managing director, Christmas 1947, "We have a devil of a sky for Christmas.Pure as a virgin's forehead, barely guilty", "Shall we meet again in 1948? I wish you a year with just enough disasters to keep us from meeting between St Germain des Près and Switzerland...". - 3°) Autograph postcard signed, Avignon, August 19, 1947, Curious and enigmatic message - 4°) Autograph letter signed, 2 p in-4, Cairo, November 6, 1946: "Cairo, Egypt, the Orient, are in the midst of popular jubilationand are seasoning the feast of the Great Sacrifice with a terrifying clash. Since Islam has discovered the microphone, no more beautiful meditation!Since I have the bad sense to remain at equal distance from a muezzin and the British airport, my nights are torn apart by the flight of seaplanes lighting their headlights on the cigarettes of strollers lingering on the shore, and, at the other end of the spectrum, by abrupt radio devotions to a meeting God. I sometimes like to think that it's the propellers that are praying their hearts out, and the faithful who are taking off on their own adventures, sure of themselves though, sure among all the faithful, for Islam is a well-trodden religion. You won't be surprised to learn that young Egyptian girls are beginning to intersperse their flirtations with discreet considerations on existentialism (which in Arabic means "al wougoudiya"...).) - 5°) Autograph letter signed, 2 p in-4, Cairo, November 30, 1946, "We plan to organize an exhibition of paintings towards the end of December, with destruction of the finest works at the end of or during the vernissage. A painter will shoot the portrait of his beloved wife, and the image will fall to the ground; after five minutes, a telephone call will reassure those present that the model is unharmed, but has simply lost his memory for a short time. And when all is said and done, shouldn't we begrudge an exhibition (or a book) for merely displaying the more or less lived experience, instead of pushing life to new limits? Do you translate for "4-Vents"? [I have a friend there -Jean Maquet [nb: Jean Maquet, professor of philosophy, very active surrealist] - very extraordinary, who told me a lot about Stevenson, and to whom Anglo-Saxon literature inspires sometimes dazzling insights" - 6°) Autograph letter signed, 1 p in-4,Cairo, December 28, 1946, "These hasty words, to wish you a Happy New Year. I mean a year in which champagne corks would no longer pop to the rhythm of sacrificed heads, in which negroes would no longer risk their lives by saying "hello" to a white woman, in which the baptism of packs would no longer cover the damnation of men, in which time would no longer be money and everyone would be enriched by losing theirs, in which the redesign of our political geography, borders and parties, would be entrusted to three other greats : Michaux, Chaplin and Groucho Marx, for example, where page 8 would finally be the sign of recognition for all honest people... Not only do these considerations seem far-fetched to me, but on rereading them I find them to be unfailingly modest, especially in the light of 1947.