• Tzara, Tristan. (1896 - 1963) & Picabia, Francis. (1879 - 1953): Festival dada. Mercredi 26 mai 1920 à 3 h, après-midi. Programme.
  • Tzara, Tristan. (1896 - 1963) & Picabia, Francis. (1879 - 1953): Festival dada. Mercredi 26 mai 1920 à 3 h, après-midi. Programme.

Tzara, Tristan. (1896 - 1963) & Picabia, Francis. (1879 - 1953): Festival dada. Mercredi 26 mai 1920 à 3 h, après-midi. Programme.

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Handbill poster, printed in black on pale green stock, overprinted in orange with an elaborate dada mechanomorphic drawing by Picabia (and additional text). On the verso: catalogue of the Dada publishers and gallery Au Sans Pareil. 350 x 250 mm. (13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches). Design by Francis Picabia and Tristan Tzara. With expert archival repairs to a few tears, overall a very good example of this scarce and fragile handbill. Framed.

The program is headlined in orange with the announcement “Tous les Dadas se feront tondre les cheveux sur la scène!” ("All of the Dadas will have their heads shaved at the event!"), though at the event the audience was so upset that the Dadas failed to follow through with this promise that they pelted the participants with tomatoes, rotten eggs, bread rolls, and, from one corner, apparently, veal cutlets! Though there was no head shaving, the program did feature foxtrots played on the organ and Ribemont-Dessaignes's "danse frontière” performed wrapped in a large cardboard funnel oscillating at its tip. The handbill advertises, among other elements of the program: “le sexe de dada,” “le célèbre illusioniste” by Philippe Soupault, “le nombril interlope, musique de Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, interprété par Mlle. Mar- guerite Buffet,” “festival manifeste presbyte, par Francis Picabia, interprété par André Breton et Henri Houry,” “le rastaquouère” by Breton, “la deuxième aventure de monsieur Aa l’antipyrine” by Tristan Tzara, “vous m’oublierez, sketch par André Breton et Philippe Soupault,” “la nourrice américaine, par Francis Picabia, musique sodomiste interprétée par Marguerite Buffet,” “manifeste baccarat” by Ribemont-Dessaignes, enacted by Soupault, Breton and Berthe Tessier, “système DD” by Louis Aragon, “je suis des javanais” by Picabia, “poids public” by Paul Éluard, and “vaseline symphonique,” by Tzara.

Documents Dada 20; Dada Global 229; Almanacco Dada p. 607; Sanouillet 306; Motherwell/Karpel 45, p. 111ff., illus. p. 179; Dachy p. 136 (illus. in color); Dachy: Archives Dada/Chronique p. 422 (illus. in color); Düsseldorf 257; Zürich 443; Tendenzen 3.112; Pompidou 1472, illus. p. 431; Washington: Dada pl. 360