Accession number
PML 198742.4
Creator
Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907.
Published
Isère, France, 1904 February 26.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2021.
Notes
Inscribed on the recto of a postcard captioned 'Lyon. La Cathédral Saint-Jean,' published by Collections ND Phot., Establissement photographiques Neurdein.
Jarry also refers to the image in a letter to Vallette, dated 29 Feb. 1904, inserted in this same volume (see PML 198742.3).
Jarry also refers to the image in a letter to Vallette, dated 29 Feb. 1904, inserted in this same volume (see PML 198742.3).
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 14 x 9 cm
Provenance
Laid into a copy of Ubu roi (Paris: Mercure de France, 1897), formerly owned by Paul Eluard, later in the Collection Geneviève & Jean-Paul Kahn, acquired at their sale at Pierre Bergé, 18.vi.21, lot 9.
Summary
Referring to the image depicted on the postcard of the cathedral in Lyon, Jarry writes that the church clock measures the instants that separate us from the furnace.
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