Andre Breton

Works in the MOMA collection

A lecture given in Brussels on 1st June 1934 at a public meeting organised by the Belgian Surrealists, and issued as a pamphlet immediately afterwards

I Saluted at Six Paces Commandant Lefebvre des Noëttes (Poem object)

Le Déclin de la société bourgeoisie, and other works

André Breton was born in Tinchebray (Orne) the son of a shopkeeper. He spent his childhood on the Brittany coast and started early on to write poems – he knew the poet Paul Valéry while still young. Breton studied medicine and later psychiatry, and in 1921 met Freud in Vienna…