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GENET, Jean (1910-1986)

Lot 91
21.03.2024 13:00UTC +01:00
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€ 6 930
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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Lot 91 | GENET, Jean (1910-1986)
Estimate value
€ 5 000 – 7 000
GENET, Jean (1910-1986)
Le Condamné à mort. Fresnes, septembre 1942.
Précieux exemplaire, avec corrections autographes de Genet, dans une fascinante reliure allusive de Georges Leroux.
Premier ouvrage de Genet, Le Condamné à mort a été écrit en prison, alors que le poète était incarcéré à Fresnes. Le texte évoque la figure du jeune assassin Maurice Pilorge, guillotiné le 4 février 1939. Martyr mais surtout objet de fantasmes pour Genet, le condamné à mort éponyme donne corps aux thématiques principales de l'ouvrage - l'amitié (probablement fantasmée d'ailleurs, entre Genet et Pilorge), l'amour entre prisonniers, l'homosexualité. Le livre est imprimé dans la clandestinité.

In-8 (212 x 135 mm). Édition originale, au tirage limité à 100 exemplaires. Corrections autographes de Genet, sur presque chacune des pages. L’exemplaire est enrichi, sur un feuillet blanc, d’une aquarelle originale monogrammée d’Émile Picq, représentant une scène érotique.
Reliure signée de Georges Leroux, datée 1961 : box ivoire, plats évidés d’une forme carrée, tapissée sur le plat supérieur d’une photographie d’homme, et fermée de pièces de box ébène mosaïqué en relief, figurant une fenêtre et des barreaux de prison, lettre à l’oeser noir sur le dos, tête dorée, couverture et dos conservés, chemise et étui assortis.

[Jointe à l’exemplaire] : une lettre autographe signée de Genet à [l’éditeur] Paul [Morihien] : « sois gentil de me rendre un peu ce service : prêter à Violette [Leduc] N.D. des Fl. et Le Condamné à Mort. C’est la moindre des choses que tu me dois après le cadeau que je te fais de pouvoir éditer la dite Violette ». 1 p. in-8, pliure médiane et trous d’épingle marginaux.
Provenance : Pierre Leroy (sa vente, Sotheby’s Paris, 26 juin 2002, lot n°207).

A most precious copy of the very scarce first edition, with autograph corrections by Genet, in a fine allusive binding by Georges Leroux. From the Pierre Leroy library.
Artist:Jean Genet (1910 - 1986)
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