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Jean HELIONThey Shall Not Have Me (Ils ne m'auront pas) New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1943 1 vol. (150 x 215 mm) de 435 pp. et 2 ff. Toile éditeur rouge, jaquette. 435 pp, 2 leaves. (21 x 15 cm). hardcover, ill. dust jacket.
First edition.
Inscribed f: " à Dorothea et Max Ernst, affectueusement, Hélion, Nyc 45 ".
They shall not have me form Jean Helion's testimony on his experience of captivity in Germany, from the June 1940 defeat to his escape in 1942. One of the most prominent painters in the field of non-figurative painting, Jean Helion left New York in January 1940 where he lived with his wife, Jean Blair: he ardently wanted to participate in the Second World War, " perhaps because I felt that I had not fought enough to prevent it from happening," he explained later. However, from 19 June, on the borders of the Eure-et-Loir and the Loir-et-Cher, he was interned in an abandoned barracks and then transferred to Pomerania. There he discovered the world of forced labour camps, from which he… Read More