Nusch Eluard [with Paul Eluard ] 1936 by Man Ray
from lotus-feet
As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body’s Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Recontre de Deux Sourires / Meeting of two smiles
is a name of a poem written by Paul Eluard and illustrated by Ernst, published in Les malheurs des immortels,1922
[translated as Misfortunes of the Immortals,1943 available here]
from Giornale Nuovo
Man Ray for today:Nude studies of Nusch Eluard with poems by Paul Eluard
from Facile,Editions G.L.M. 1935
“I love your sex, your eyes, your breast, your arms, your feet, your lips
and your thoughts,all mine Gala.
Freedom makes me faithful. “
[Linel] February 28th 1931
from Letters to Gala 1924-1948
Paul Eluard & Gala by Andre Breton [?]
via Moicani
Paul Eluard ~Love/L’Amour,1935-37
[thanks to caramelitta;]
Picnic:Nusch and Paul Eluard,Lee Miller, Man Ray, and Ady Fidelin
Île Sainte-Marguerite,Cannes,France,1937. photo by Roland Penrose
[see also:]
via Поль Элюар
Man Ray’s illustration for Paul Eluard’s poem Pouvoir/Power,1947
via AURORAWEBLOG
HEN
Let the hen pond:
hen with its ripe fruits,
Hen with our gain.
from Les Animaux et leurs hommes. Les Hommes et leurs animaux [Animals and their men. Men and their animals] by Paul Eluard, illustrated by Valentine Hugo 1938
via Librairie Loliee
[btw.today is world book and copyright day,i thought to celebrate it with some awesome illustrations and covers;]
one more for monday Dali & HB to Eluard!
i12bent:Salvador Dali: Portrait of Paul Eluard, 1929
(Source)
and a bit of Lee Miller to end tonight’s RayMania
Head Games:Ady with Nusch and Paul Éluard and Man Ray.
© Lee Miller Archives, England 2007.
from killer.bee.sting.archives thru i12bent’s hidden treasures & nytimes
Paul Eluard wrote a poem in homage to Man Ray:
The storm of a robe which falls
Then a simple body without clouds
So come and tell me all your charms
You who have had your share of happiness
And who often bewails the dismal fate of the one who made you so happy
You who have no desire to reason
You who knew not how to create a man
Without loving anotherIn the ebb and flow of a body which undresses
Akin to the breast of twilight
The eye forms in line on the neglected dunes
Where the fountains hold naked hands within their claws
Vestiges of bare forehead pale cheeks beneath the eyelashes of the horizon
A rocket-like tear betrothed to the past
To know that light was fertile
Childish swallows mistake the earth for the skyThe dark room where the stones of cold are bare
Do not say you have no fear
Your look is level with my shoulder
You are too lovely to preach chastityIn the dark room where even the wheat
is born of greedinessRemain unmoving
And you are alone*******
Photo by Man Ray of Eluard, Nusch and friends…
it’s a beautiful poem and photo too,thanks i12bent
i12bent: By a strange coincidence Marcel Proust, Paul Eluard and Man Ray all died on November 18 - albeit in different years…
Man Ray of course famously photographed Proust on his death bed, 1922 - above:
“Ravaged by bronchitis and pneumonia, Marcel Proust spent the last night of his life dictating manuscript changes for a section of his famous novel Remembrance of Things Past.
Man Ray did not know Proust, but he had become such an important photographer that mutual friends dispatched him to the celebrated French author’s bedside to make a final portrait two days after his death. The side view associates Man Ray’s photograph with a tradition of postmortem photography dating back to the inception of the medium.” (Source - The Getty)