Description

FIRST EDITION illustrated by Robert Lagarde.
Off-market copy after 200 numbered copies.

A copy by the critic and art historian José Pierre, a specialist in the Surrealist movement. It includes this very handsome AUTOGRAPHIC SENTENCE SIGNED jointly, alternately and in two colours, by the author and the artist :

"For José Pierre
and for some
rather than for others
"that life, the life of thought that seeks
to break out of its individual framework
intensely in a fever of creation
that the spirit of discovery replaces the spirit
of the process, that the direction of opening
replaces sectarianism and above all
that we stop opening it
that we stop confusing rigour and
rigorism, demands and systematic censorship".
"Or who are we?"
"Freedom of speech ...
... the freedom to say it all
Any other design considered
(can't) be for us,
in this case, as reactionary,
to the limit, restrictive.
Robert Lagarde, Guy Cabanel

Nice provenance.