Description
FIRST EDITION of these remarkable associations between painting and poetry.
17 PAINTINGS ORIGINALS, 3 LITHOGRAPHS AND A STAMP, ALL SIGNED.
UNIQUE EDITION OF 85 COPIES ON ARCHES 250 GRAMMES printed by Mathias Perez on Carte Blanche presses for the Musée de la ville de Céret, where it was presented in the summer of 1983.
- Original signed paintings Michel Arnaudies, Jean DegottexEtienne Hajdu, Jacques Capdeville, Serge Lunal, B. Meyer Himboff, Monique Maregiano, Mathias Pérez, Georges Badin, Claude Viallat (numbered by the artist, who does not sign his works), Michel Bertrand, Bernadette Février, Jean CapdevilleMichel Canteloup, François Garnier, Jean Louis Vila, Philippe Boutibonnes, Valère Novarina
- Original lithographs : Antoni Tapies, Olivier Debré (double page) and Antonio Saura
- A stamp Étienne Hajdu
- Texts Edmond Brazès, Maurice Benhamou, Lucien Curzi, Jacques Dupin, Patrick Gifreu, Jean Claude Hauc, Pierre Manuel, Serge Mestre, Claude Minière, Bruno Montels, Bernard Noël, Marcelin Pleynet, René Pons, Christian Pringent, Jean-Michel Reynard, Julia Rios, Jacqueline Risset, Denis Roche, Margaret Tunstill, Jean-Pierre Verheggen, Jean-Noël Vuarnet
Christian Pringent's lengthy introduction, entitled The box is fresh! sets out the five paradoxes that lie at the heart of this project, and begins as follows Here are some works in a boxed set, cased. They will only come out to be stuck to the wall, exposed. So: "To the block! Then: "To the pillory! To the post!" That's not very attractive. What could possibly motivate that? It only works with paradox".
In fact, this boxed set has often been "taken apart", and works by Viallat, Degottex, Débré or Tapiès are often sold alone at public auctions.
COMPLETE.
In a grey cloth slipcase with the title stamped on the spine.