The original Surrealist Manifesto, penned by André Breton in 1924, sold at auction as part of a 3.2 million Euro (approx US$5 million) collection of manuscripts. From The Telegraph:
After selling the nine documents separately, Sotheby's then offered the whole lot to any bidder prepared to put down more than the sum total reached. Following a battle with several telephone bidders, they all went to French collector Gérard Lhéritier, founder of the privately-owned Museum of Letters and Manuscripts in Paris…
Mr Breton, who died in September 1966 at the age of 70, defined surrealism in the manifesto as "psychic automatism in its pure state".
It is the "transcription of thoughts without any form of control by reasoning and without any reference to aesthetic or moral considerations."
Link (Thanks, Imaginary Foundation!)
