![]() ![]() Implicitly, the address book’s ownership was being revealed through these relationships. It also made me think of a group photograph as it was being developed in the darkroom, each figure emerging from the red depths one by one. This list was beginning to look like a postwar who’s who, a roster of special guests posted outside a reception, an index of names cited in a biography of a famous artist. ![]() But most of the names in the address book were easy to identify on the internet: Lise DEHARME, novelist and muse for the Surrealists Luis FERNÁNDEZ, painter and friend of Picasso Douglas COOPER, major art collector and historian Roland PENROSE, English Surrealist Susana SOCA, Uruguayan poet. The gaze behaves like a paparazzo, snubbing the lesser-knowns to focus only on the VIPs: ÉLUARD, GIACOMETTI, Leonor FINI, NOAILLES, PONGE, POULENC, Nicolas de STAËL. Followed by the painters COUTAUD, 26, rue des Plantes CHAGALL, 22, place Dauphine. But are the first entries always the closest friends? And this poet was such a figure on the Paris social scene that everyone must have known his number. ![]() Then a few entries for whom he or she listed an address as well, perhaps because they were closer friends: BRETON, 44, rue Fontaine BRASSAÏ, 81, rue Saint-Jacques BALTHUS, château de Chassy, Blismes, Nièvre.įor the letter C, COCTEAU is the first entry: 36, rue de Montpensier, RIC 5572, or 28 in Milly. On the fourth line is the first familiar name: ARAGON! Followed by a few contacts that call up nothing for me: ACHILLE de MÉNERBES, BERNIER, BAGLUM. I would end up solving the mystery.Ī-B: The first entry is illegible because it is partly blotted out with black ink. Forget Bergerac! Forget the sellers and auctioneers! Since I had at my disposal exhibit A, I could subject this piece of evidence to a kind of interrogation: decode it line by line and page by page, make a list of the known friends of the unknown genius, search the others on the internet. ![]()
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