Description

FIRST EDITION.
Headband preserved.

Autograph signed letter to the poet and writer Max-Pol Fouchet :

"To Max-Pol Fouchet
a painter's companion,
This travel diary,
this very friendly souvenir,
Jean Bazaine April 73

Good condition.

The painter Jean Bazaine shared with Max-Pol Fouchet a commitment to the "Intellectual Resistance" against the Vichy regime. In charge of organising the Plastic Arts section of the cultural movement Jeune France, which was dissolved in 1942 because it was infiltrated by several of Pétain's opponents, Bazaine, together with the publisher André Lejard, organised the exhibition "Vingt jeunes peintres de tradition française" ("Twenty young painters in the French tradition"). Beneath this double-entendre title lay a mockery of the Nazi ideology of "degenerate art": inaugurated in April 1941, it was in fact the first exhibition devoted to avant-garde painting organised under the Occupation.