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ORIGINAL DRAWING, PASTEL AND AQUARELLE, ON PAPER SIGNED Jean Bazaine and dedicated "à Monsieur H. Corbière" and dated u 26/10/72.

Colour composition, two ellipses and quotations from authors and artists :
"It is necessary to pass through the desert - Father de Foucault".
"What we know is not ours - Proust".
"A path that leads somewhere is a bad path - Tao".
"The canvas must erase the idea - Braque".

The drawing was a gift to the journalist and critic Henri Corbière (1888-1980), who carried out a major survey of the maxims of contemporary painters.