Description

FIRST EDITION.
Current edition numbered after 24 copies on large paper. Prose poem by Pascal Claude accompanied by 3 woodcuts in black and out of text by Armand [Arman] whose first illustrated book.

A work on the origins of New Realism.
The meeting between Claude Pascal, Armand and Yves Klein took place in Nice in 1947 and led to the creation of the group Triangle in 1950. The three friends met in Arman's cellar, nicknamed the temple, repainted blue by Yves Klein, and set about making plans to remake the universe and share the world between them: "Arman is the master of the earth, Pascal the emperor of words and Klein the master of the space above the earth, this immense void, free of all material things".. Klein signed his first work in the company of Arman and Claude Pascal: "I sign my name on the back of the sky. I pass to the other side of the sky"which foreshadowed his artistic direction.
At the end of 1957, Arman, who signed his works with his first name in homage to Van Gogh, decided to abandon the final "d" and made his signature official in 1958 at an exhibition at Iris Clert. In October 1960, with the art critic Pierre Restany, Arman and Yves Klein became founding members of the Nouveaux Réalistes group. Two years later, Arman produced a Store Poem on which Claude Pascal transcribes part of the text from Miracle Smith. The work was presented in the exhibition "Arman" at the Centre Pompidou in 2010.

SIGNED AUTOGRAPH CONSIGNMENT from the poet to the painter, engraver and sculptor Albert Bitran:

"for Albert Bitran.
Hang in there, old chap!
Claude
October 56"

Uncommon.