PRÉVERT Jacques (1900-1977)

Autograph POEM, Aimante, and L.A.S. "Jacques" with DRAWING, to Claudy CARTER; 2 pages large in-8 (21,5 x 14 cm, wetness), and 2 pages in-fol.
Poem and love letter-poem with drawings.
[Claudy Emanuelli dite Claudy CARTER met Prévert in 1938: she was sixteen years old, he was thirty-eight; she was his companion during the Occupation and inspired him to write Les Feuilles mortes (Dead Leaves); she acted in several films; they left after twenty years.
Aimante has 20 verses, and has not been included in a collection; on the back, a drawing of a landscape topped by a large sun.
"Aimante the girl with the true heart the girl alive and alone she cries she cries"...
The letter-poem is illustrated at the end of the pen drawing of four flowers colored with green pencil.
"You remember the last time I saw you, it was in the morning, it was raining.
Rue de Rivoli, at the stall of a horse butcher's shop, we looked at the head of a mule, the severed head of a dead mule, it was beautiful, its hair was soft and thick and the eyes calm and gentle as if the beast so beautiful still a little alive... [...] and you remember a dwarf passed by with a big bunch of parsley... A dwarf who pedaled on a small bicycle... under the rain [...] it is late. It is raining... there is mud and I am in a shack and I write to you... [... I kiss you... They locked the monster in the black cabinet... (and tricolor) he will try to get out... try to come back as soon as possible"...