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The only complete manuscripts of The Surrealist Manifesto have been sold at auction for the amazing value of five million dollars. This has enraged art historians and critics, but all you true surrealists will be delighted. The CollectValue Gazette certainly is. The Paris Museum of Letters and Manuscripts is now the proud owner of these papers from 1924, which represent the most influential documents in modern art. They are all signed by the founder of surrealism himself, Andre Breton.

Andre Breton completely rejected the whole idea of art having any lasting value at all, and he must be happily spinning in his grave at the absurdity of it all. His Surrealist Manifesto influenced the work of the most collectable artists of the 20th Century, including Pablo Picasso, René Magritte, Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamps. Their artworks have all commanded huge sums of money for years, but now a printed manifesto by the Daddy Of Them All has achieved the same heady heights.