DALI SALVADOR: (1904-1989) Spanish Surrealist Painter. A fine original illustrated autograph manuscript signed ...

DALI SALVADOR: (1904-1989) Spanish Surrealist Painter. A fine original illustrated autograph manuscript signed ('Salvador Dali') in the third person in the body of the text, two pages, n.p. (Paris?), n.d. (1930s), in French, on the folding letter stationery of the Le Colisee bar and grill on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Penned in dark fountain pen ink, Dali commences his surrealist manuscript by announcing 'And it is precisely into the invisible anxiety of the void, into these vast horizons filled with nothing, and into these truculently desert-like, three-dimensional continuums that Salvador Dali plunges and digs in his nails, his fingers, his hands, his fists, his arms and his shoulders, to make himself remember until his ecstatic soul springs forth through his mouth' and continues 'And I repeat that if the man says that proto-erotic idea comes to overwhelm the void, this same man at the very moment where the artist's coefficients make him reach the highest hierarchy of conscience, of the materiality of his love, this same man, I repeat, at the very moment where he thinks he is expecting with his arms, his thighs, his saliva, and his very back the true anguish of the void of his love, this man, I am repeating for the third time, will feel how he is falling from his excess into the precipice, into the void of ejaculation (or) actually onto that which is nothing else but the very delicate material of which ecstasy is made', concluding 'M A Rebuc holds on to the sign of biology, of morphology, and of the aesthetic ecstasy in the ejaculatory sense of the word'. To the lower half of the second page of the manuscript appear two rows of original surrealist pen and ink drawings which illustrate, variously, an eyeball on the top of a column, various facial features including a nose and lips, a chess pawn, the profiles of two women wearing large hats and various twisted, tortured-looking objects, perhaps human organs. A rare illustrated manuscript. A couple of minor ink blots to the first page slightly obscure a few words of text, although do not affect the signature or illustrations. About VG £6000-8000