‘A Surreal Moment for the Book World': The Paul Destribats Collection | Christie's

Introducing the collection of Paul Destribats, the Paris-based bibliophile who documented the 20th-century avant-garde. Paul Destribats (1926-2017) was one of the greatest book collectors of his generation, and his collection of more than 6,000 volumes, manuscripts and printed documents covering the 20th-century avant-garde is one of the finest ever. The collection offers ‘an encyclopaedic overview’ of the diverse strands of the European, American, and even Asiatic avant-garde movement, and boasts works by some of its greatest writers, poets and artists, including Man Ray, Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso. The core of the collection, however, is formed by the work of André Breton, the leader and principal theorist of surrealism. -- Subscribe to Christie's YouTube: http://goo.gl/Vmh7Hf Sign up to Christie's Weekly: https://goo.gl/kc8qpV Follow Christie's on: Facebook: https://ift.tt/2elC9Zg Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristiesInc Instagram: https://ift.tt/2iJ3lGm Pinterest: https://ift.tt/2elCafM