Jean-Pierre DUPREY (1930-1959) - Lot 149

Jean-Pierre DUPREY (1930-1959) Untitled Charcoal, etching and scratching on prepared paper Charcoal, etching and scratching on prepared paper (embossed), signed lower left. 64,5 x 49,5 cm (on view) Mythical and cursed figure of surrealism, "archangel of the rebellious youth" Jean-Pierre Duprey, who committed suicide at the age of 29, was a poet, painter and poet, painter and sculptor. Born in Rouen, he arrived in Paris at the age of 18 at the invitation of André Breton who prefaced his first work and never stopped supporting him. and will not stop supporting him, organizing his first exhibition in his gallery, the Étoile scellée, from February 16 to March 13. 1954. If Jean-Pierre Duprey first devoted himself to poetry until the beginning of the 1950s, he then became passionate about plastic creation and sculpture, which he discovered with the ironworker René Hanesse. A dark, elusive and fascinating personality, he is and fascinating, he is interned in the hospital Sainte-Anne during the summer 1959, after his brutal arrest. 1959, after his brutal arrest for having urinated on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, an "objective" act of protest against the Algerian war. Having returned to poetry, he sends, on October 2, 1959, his wife to post a letter to the October 2, 1959, his wife mail to André Breton his last manuscript, La Fin et la Manière, and hangs himself from the main beam of his studio. His works are of the most insignificant rarity in public sales, as are the two paintings from the Geneviève and Jean-Paul Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn collection sold in 2021 and 2022.