ELT Mesens

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ELT Mesens (Edouard Léon Théodore) (1903-1971) was a Belgian artist and writer associated with the Surrealist movement. He was the editor of the London Bulletin (1938-1940) - which was the most important of the English-language Surrealist periodicals - and co-organiser of the London International Surrealist Exhibition. During the later 1930s and after the war he ran the London Gallery with Roland Penrose.

A biography of Mesens by George Melly, Don't Tell Sybil: An Intimate Memoir of E.L.T. Mesens, was published in 1997.

[edit] Bibliography

• Alphabet sourd aveugle - Flamel, Brussels - with preface and a note by Paul Eluard (1933)
• Troisième Front - London Gallery Editions (1944)
• Free Unions - Unions Libres - Directed by Simon Watson Taylor (1946)
• The Cubist Spirit In Its Time - London Gallery Editions - with Robert Melville (1947)
• Poèmes, 1923-1958 - Le Terrain Vague (1959)

[edit] References

• Tate Collection - Four works by ELT Mesens
• Inventory of the ELT Mesens papers - at the Getty Research Institute