Arthur Adamov - Victor Brauner - René Char - René Daumal - Robert Delanglade - Oscar Dominguez - - Le Jeu De Marseille - Jeu De Cartes Surréaliste - Tarot des Surréalistes - Jeu du tarot de Marseille

The Marseille Game - Surrealist Card Game - Surrealists’ Tarot - Marseille Tarot– A work of art, collector, rare card game - André Breton.
Collector’s game, very rare. It has not been published since early 2026. The last packs you’ll find on the market are the last ones for sale. It will become increasingly difficult to obtain. It is a work of art and a historical piece with a lot of history. The deck has been exhibited in several museums around the world, including in New York. Inspired by the standard card game. 54-card deck, 9 cm x 6 cm, under a color-illustrated slipcase. Full-color edition published in Marseille by André Breton and manufactured using an artisanal process by Master-Cartier Grimaud in 1983. Created on the model of the Marseille Tarot by the Surrealists present at Villa Air-Bel in 1940. An artist fleeing the German regime and World War II. The sixteen face cards (apart from the joker Ubu, by Jarry) were drawn by Arthur Adamov - Victor Brauner - René Char - René Daumal - Robert Delanglade - Oscar Domínguez - Marcel Duchamp - Max Ernst - Jacques Hérold - Sylvain Itkine - Wifredo Lam - André Masson - Benjamin Peret - Tristan Tzara. The trump cards depict Alice, Lautréamont, Freud, Baudelaire, the Portuguese nun, Paracelsus, Novalis, Pancho Villa, etc. A very fine brand-new copy in unopened blister, complete with all 54 cards, the small fold-out notice inside and its storage case.
The Marseille Game is a variant of the 54-card game created in March 1941 by surrealist artists who had taken refuge at Villa Air-Bel in Marseille. The end of 1940 and the beginning of 1941 saw various figures associated with the surrealist movement or in some ways linked to it come to Marseille. They gathered at the Château “Air-Bel,” where they were warmly welcomed by Mr. Varian Fry, President of the American Committee for Aid to Intellectuals. The game was first published in the surrealist magazine VVV in 1943 and then exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1983, the game was published by André Dimanche in Marseille, and reproduced in the catalog of the exhibition La Planète affolée in 1986. In 2003, Aube Elléouët-Breton and her daughter Oona donated to the Musée Cantini the twenty-two drawings from the game, acquired during the Breton sale, in memory of Varian Fry.
-SIGNIFICATION EMBLÊMES (EMBLEMS):
-Love Flame
- Dream Star (black)
- Revolution Wheel (and blood)
- Knowledge Lock
- The hierarchy, starting from the ace, is maintained as follows: Genius, Mermaid, Mage, Ten, etc.
Exhibitions:
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1943
- Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, La planète affolée, surrealism, dispersion and influences, 1938-1986, 1986
- Aix-en-Provence, Gallery of the General Council of Bouches-du-Rhône, On the Quays, Marseille 190-1941, 1999
- Zaragoza, Surrealistas: Exilio y Amistad, Varian Fry and exiles’ candidates, Marseille 1940-1941, 1999
- Paris, Paris City’s Museum of Modern Art, L’Art en guerre 1938 - 1947, from Picasso to Dubuffet, 12 October 2012 - 17 February 2013
- Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, L’Art en guerre 1938-1947, March to September 2013.