Medal Guillaume Apollinaire Poet Le Bridge Mirabeau 1961 Poem Surrealism

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Bronze medal from the Monnaie de Paris.
Minted in 1968.
Beautiful copy.
Engraver / Artist / Sculptor
: Georges LAY (1907-?).
Dimensions
: 68 mm.
Weight
: 165 g.
Metal
: bronze.
Hallmark on the edge
: cornucopia + bronze.
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Guillaume Albert Vladimir Alexandre Apollinaire de Kostrowitzky1, known as Guillaume Apollinaire, is a French poet and writer, critic and art theorist who would beNote 1 born Polish subject of the Russian Empire, August 25, 1880 in Rome. He died in Paris on November 9, 1918 of the Spanish flu, but was declared dead for France2 because of his engagement during the war.
Considered one of the most important French poets of the twentieth century, 3 he is the author of poems such as Zone, La Chanson du mal-aime, Le Pont Mirabeau, which have been the subject of several adaptations to song during the century. . The erotic part of his work - including mainly three novels (including one lost), many poems and introductions to licentious authors - has also passed into posterity. He experimented for a time with the practice of the calligram (term of his invention, although he was not the inventor of the genre itself, designating poems written in the form of drawings and not in classical form in verses and stanzas). He was the cantor of many artistic avant-gardes of his time, notably Cubism and Orphism, in the gestation of which he participated as a poet and theorist of the New Spirit. A precursor of surrealism, he forged its name in his drama Les Mamelles de Tirésias (1917).
Guillaume Apollinaire was born in Rome under the name of Guglielmo Alberto Wladimiro Alessandro Apollinare de Kostrowitzky, in Polish Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Aleksander Apolinary Kostrowicki, herb. Wąż. Apollinaire is in fact - until his naturalization in 1916 - the fifth given name of Guillaume Albert Vladimir Alexandre Apollinaire de Kostrowitzky.
Her mother, Angelika Kostrowicka (Wąż clan, or Angelica of Wąż-Kostrowicky), was born in Nowogródek in the Russian Empire (now Navahrudak in Belarus), in a family of the Polish gentry. After the death of her father, the pope's honorary cape-and-sword cameraman, she remains in Rome, where she becomes the mistress of a nobleman and has an unwanted pregnancy. His son was born on August 25, 1880 and he was declared at the town hall as having been born on August 26, 18804 to an unknown father and a mother wishing to remain anonymous, so that the administration gave him a surname. loan: Dulcigny. Angelika recognized him a few months later before a notary as her son, under the name of Guglielmo Alberto Wladimiro Alessandroi Apollinare de Kostrowitzky5. According to the most probable hypothesis, his father would be an Italian officer, Francesco Flugi d'Aspermont6. In 1882, she gave him a half-brother, Alberto Eugenio Giovanni. In 1887 she moved to Monaco with her sons under the name Olga de Kostrowitzky. Very quickly she was arrested there and listed by the police as a gallant woman, probably earning her living as a trainer in the new casino. Guillaume, placed in boarding school at Saint Charles College, run by the Marist brothers, studied there from 1887 to 1895, and proved to be one of the best students. Then he enrolled at the Stanislas high school in Cannes and then at the Masséna high school in Nice where he failed his first baccalaureate7 and did not re-run. During the three months of the summer of 1899, his mother installed him, with his brother, at the Constant pension in the small Walloon village of Stavelot, a pension which they left on October 5, 8 at "the wooden bell". : their mother having sent them only the money of the train, they cannot pay the bill of the hotel, and must flee in secret, once everyone is asleep9. The Walloon episode permanently enriched his imagination and his creation. Thus, from this period dates the memory of the festive dances of this region ("C'est la maclotte qui sautille ..." »), In Marie, that of the Hautes Fagnes, as well as borrowing from the Walloon dialect10.
Apollinaire's mother
Diary of Paul Léautaud for January 20, 1919: “I see a lady [Apollinaire's mother, in Léautaud's office at the Mercure de France] enter, tall enough, elegant, with a somewhat unusual look. Great facial resemblance to Apollinaire, or rather Apollinaire to her, the nose, the eyes a little, especially the mouth and the expressions of the mouth in laughter and in a smile. / It seems very original to me. Exuberant. One of those women who are said to be a bit “out of the box”. In half an hour, she tells me about her life: Russian, never married, many trips, almost all of Europe. (Apollinaire suddenly appears to me having inherited this vagrancy in my imagination.) Apollinaire born in Rome. She doesn't tell me anything about the father. / She talks to me about the man with whom she has lived for twenty-five years, her friend, an Alsatian, a great player, sometimes full of money, sometimes penniless. She lacks nothing. Dinners at Paillard, Prunier, Café de la Paix, etc. / She tells me that she has "installed" Apollinaire several times, to have showered him with money. Speaking of him, she always says: Wilhelm. / Ferocious feelings towards Apollinaire's wife. / [...] She portrays Apollinaire to me as a little tender son, interested, often carried away, always asking for money, and unwilling to give it when he had it. / She didn't hide her age from me: 52 years old. Very well preserved for this age, especially slender and light, easy gait. "
In Paris
In 1900, he moved to Paris, center of the arts and European literature at the time. Living in precariousness, his mother asked him, to earn a living, to take a shorthand diploma and he became a bank employee like his half-brother Alberto Eugenio Giovanni. The lawyer Esnard hired him for a month as a negro to write the soap opera What to do? in Le Matin, but refuses to pay it. To revenge himself, he seduces his young mistress11.
In July 1901, he wrote his first article for Tabarin, a satirical weekly directed by Ernest Gaillet, then in September 1901 his first poems appeared in the review La Grande France under his name Wilhelm Kostrowitzky12. From May 1901 to August 21, 1902, he was tutor to the daughter of Élinor Hölterhoff, Viscountess of Milhau, of German origin and widow of a French count. He falls in love with the little girl's English governess, Annie Playden, who refuses his advances. It was then the “Rhine” period of which his collections bear the traces (La Lorelei, Schinderhannes). Back to then begins a long convalescence during which he stops writing to Madeleine. At the end of October, his collection of tales, Le Poète Assassiné, was published and the publication was crowned, on December 31, by a memorable banquet organized by his friends in the Old Palace of Orleans.
The Surrealists are then interested in a painting by Giorgio de Chirico dating from 1914, which, after having probably been titled The Target Man, finds its final title: Portrait (premonitory) of Guillaume Apollinaire. It owes this name to the profile present in the composition and comprising a white circle on the left temple. A target at the very spot where two years later, Apollinaire was wounded. The latter himself sees it as a sign of destiny, and the Surrealists follow suit, predisposed as they are to recognize in De Chirico certain premonitory gifts.
Last years
Plaque at no 202 boulevard Saint-Germain (7th arrondissement of Paris), where he died.
In Mars 1917, he created the term surrealism which appeared in one of his letters to Paul Dermée23 and in the program of the ballet Parade which he wrote for the performance of May 18. On May 11, he was declared definitively unfit to campaign in the armed forces by the medical commission and reclassified in an auxiliary service. On June 19, 1917, he was attached to the Ministry of War which assigned him to the Censorship. On June 24, he performed his play Les Mamelles de Tirésias (subtitled Surrealist drama in two acts and a prologue) in the hall of the Renée Maubel conservatory, now the Galabru theater. On November 26, he said he was ill and had actor Pierre Bertin give his famous lecture L'Esprit Nouveau at the Théâtre du Vieux Colombier.
In 1918, Éditions Sic published his play Les Mamelles de Tirésias. Her poem, La jolie rousse, dedicated to her new companion, appeared in the magazine L'Éventail in Mars . In April, the Mercure de France publishes its new collection of poems, Calligrammes. On May 2, he married JacquelineNote 6 (the “pretty redhead” of the poem), to whom we owe many posthumous publications of Apollinaire's works. His witnesses are Picasso, Gabrièle Buffet and the famous art dealer Ambroise Vollard. Assigned on May 21 to the press office of the Ministry of Colonies, he was promoted lieutenant on July 28. After a three-week leave with Jacqueline, in Kervoyal (in Damgan, in Morbihan), he returned to his ministry office and at the same time continued to work on articles, on a screenplay for the cinema, and on rehearsals of his short story. piece, Color of time.
Apollinaire and his wife Jacqueline, on the terrace of their apartment, at no 202 boulevard Saint-Germain, in May or June 1918.
Tomb of Guillaume Apollinaire in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
Weakened by his injury, Guillaume Apollinaire died on November 9, 1918 at his home, 202 boulevard Saint-Germain, corner of rue Saint-Guillaume. It was the Spanish flu that swept him away in a final asphyxiation, “intestinal flu complicated by pulmonary congestion” as Paul Léautaud wrote in his diary of November 11, 19182. While his friends come to greet his remains, the Parisians parade under his windows shouting "Kill Guillaume!" », Referring not to the poet but to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany who abdicated on the same day 5. He is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery.
History of its funerary monument24
In May 1921, his companions and intimates formed a committee to collect funds for the execution, by Picasso, of the funeral monument of his tomb. Sixty-five artists offer works, the auction of which at the Galerie Paul Guillaume, on June 16 and 18, 1924, brought in 30,450 francs. In 1927 and 1928, Picasso proposed two projects but none was retained. The first is considered obscene by the committee. For the second - a construction of metal rods - Picasso was inspired by the “empty monument” created by the bird of Benin for Croniamantal in Le Poète assassiné25. In the fall of 1928, he carried out four constructions with the help of his friend Julio Gonzalez, painter, goldsmith and blacksmith, whom the committee refused; three are kept at the Picasso Museum in Paris, the fourth belongs to a private collection.
Finally, it was Apollinaire's friend, the painter Serge Férat, who designed the granite monument-menhir26 surmounting the tomb in the Père-Lachaise cemetery, division 86. The tomb also bears a double epitaph from the collection Calligrammes, three discontinuous stanzas from CollineNote 7, which evoke his poetic project and his death, and a calligram of green and white shards in the shape of a heart which reads "my heart like a flame. overturned ”.
Insights into the work
Apollinaire and Marie Laurencin. La Muse inspirant le poète by Henri Rousseau, (1909) Note 8. Kunstmuseum (Basel)
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Influenced by Syrian poetry and tales
Mirely ou le Petit Trou pas cher, erotic novel written under a pseudonym for a bookseller in the rue Saint-Roch in Paris, 1900 (lost work).
Que faire ?, serial novel published in the newspaper Le Matin, signed Esnard, to which GA serves as a negro.
Les Onze Mille Verges ou les Amours d'un hospodarNote 10, erotic novel published under silent cover, 1907.
L'Enchanteur pourrissant, illustrated with engravings by André Derain, Kahnweiler, 1909.
L'Heresiarch et Cie, tales, Stock, 1910.
The Exploits of a Young Don Juan, erotic novel, published in silent cover, 1911. The novel was adapted for cinema in 1987 by Gianfranco Mingozzi under the same title.
La Rome des Borgia, which is in fact by René Dalize, Bibliothèque des Curieux, 1914.
The End of Babylon - The Romanesque History 1/3, Library of the Curious, 1914.
Les Trois Don Juan - The Romanesque History 2/3, Library of Curieux, 1915.
The Assassinated Poet, Tales, The Edition, Library of Curieux, 1916.
The Seated Woman, unfinished, posthumous edition, Gallimard, 1920. Digital version at Gallica28
The Pins, tales, 1928.
The Body and the Spirit (Inventors, doctors & mad scientists), Bibliogs, Collection Sérendipité, 2016. Contains the tales: "Cosmetic Surgery" and "Thyroid Treatment" published in 1918.
Critical and chronic works
La Phalange nouvelle, conference, 1909.
L'Œuvre du Marquis de Sade, selected pages, introduction, bibliographical essay and notes, Paris, Bibliothèque des Curieux, 1909, first anthology published in France on the Marquis de Sade.
Poems of the Year, conference, 1909.
The Poets of Today, conference, 1909.
The Italian Theater, illustrated literary encyclopedia, 1910
Pages of history, chronicle of the great centuries of France, historical chronicle, 1912
Modern Painting, 1913.
The Cubist Painters. Aesthetic Meditations, Eugène Figuière & Cie, Editors, 1913, Collection “Tous les Arts”; Hermann reissue, 1965 (ISBN 978-2-7056-5916-5)
Futurist Antitradition, manifesto synthesis, 1913.
L'Enfer de la Bibliothèque nationale with Fernand Fleuret and Louis Perceau, Mercure de France, Paris, 1913 (2nd ed. in 1919).
Le Flâneur des deux rives, chronicles, Editions de la Sirène, 1918.
The Poetic Work of Charles Baudelaire, introduction and notes to the edition of the Masters of Love, Collection des Classiques Galants, Paris, 1924.
Anecdotal, notes from 1911 to 1918, published post mortem by Stock in 1926
Les Diables d'Amour, collection of works for the Masters of Love and the Bibliophile's Box, Gallimard, 1964.
References :
Complete works by Guillaume Apollinaire, Andre Balland and Jacques Lecat, 4 vol, 1965-1966, editions prepared by Michel Décuadin29
Complete prose works. Tomes II and III, Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1991 and 1993.
Small wonders of everyday life, texts found, Fata Morgana, 1979.
Small art strolls, rediscovered texts, Fata Morgana, 1980.
Theater and cinema
Les Mamelles de Tirésias, surrealist drama in two acts and a prologue, 1917.
La Bréhatine, cinema screenplay written in collaboration with André Billy, 191730.
Color of Time, 1918, reissue 1949.
Casanova, Parody comedy (pref. Robert Mallet), Paris, Gallimard, 1952, 122 p. (OCLC 5524823)
Correspondence
Letters to her godmother 1915–18, 1948.
Tender comme le souvenir, letters to Madeleine Pagès, 1952.
Letters to Lou, edition by Michel Décaudin, Gallimard, 1969.
Guillaume Apollinaire: correspondence with his brother and his mother, presented by Gilbert Boudar and Michel Décaudin, Paris, Libraire José Corti, 1987.
Letters to Madeleine. Tendre comme le souvenir, revised and enlarged edition by Laurence Campa, Gallimard, 2005.
Correspondence with the artists, Gallimard, 2009.
General correspondence, edited by Victor Martin-Schmets. 5 volumes, Honoré Champion, 2015.
Journal and Drawings
Her mother, Angelika Kostrowicka (Wąż clan, or Angelica of Wąż-Kostrowicky), was born in Nowogródek in the Russian Empire (now Navahrudak in Belarus), in a family of the Polish gentry. After the death of her father, the pope's honorary cape-and-sword cameraman, she remains in Rome, where she becomes the mistress of a nobleman and has an unwanted pregnancy. His son was born on August 25, 1880 and he was declared at the town hall as having been born on August 26, 18804 to an unknown father and a mother wishing to remain anonymous, so that the administration gave him a surname. loan: Dulcigny. Angelika recognized him a few months later before a notary as her son, under the name of Guglielmo Alberto Wladimiro Alessandroi Apollinare de Kostrowitzky5. According to the most probable hypothesis, h