{"id":18968,"date":"2024-12-18T13:48:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T12:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=18968"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:55:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:55:56","slug":"les-petits-moutons-blancs-qui-sortent-en-rang-du-lavoir","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/shop\/art\/bury_pol\/les-petits-moutons-blancs-qui-sortent-en-rang-du-lavoir\/","title":{"rendered":"The little white sheep coming out of the washhouse in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FIRST EDITION<\/strong> illustrated with 8 hors-texte lithographs by Pol Bury - Mao's gradual transformation into a potato.<br \/>\n<strong>ONE OF 15 COPIES ON ARCHES<\/strong> accompanied by two large-format suites (in black and two colours) - i.e. <strong>16 lithographs signed in pencil by the artist.<\/strong><br \/>\n(Total edition of 60 copies on Arches with various additions and 540 copies on ivory laid paper).<\/p>\n<p>In the mid-1970s, could Mao bear comparison?  Probably not with a man, or even an idea that <em>\"doesn't wear a jacket, the Mao collar could only be compared to itself, which would turn the demonstration into a fairground carousel\".\u00a0<\/em> The potato was an obvious choice for Pol Bury, and so he \"decided to make the most of it\".<em>It's easy to say that Chairman Mao is not a potato. And yet... Both are alive, both have skin.<\/em>\"<\/p>\n<p>And if we think that Mao saved China from famine, it's not without recalling that \" <em>the potato saved France from the horrors of famine in 1793, 1816 and 1817<\/em>\".  The result was a \"<em>sudden enthusiasm for eating Mao<\/em>\"and we slide \"<em>towards a gradual substitution of Mao for potatoes<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n<p>Rare.<\/p>\n<p>The deluxe editions are preserved in two folders with titles on the boards.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIRST EDITION<br \/>\nONE OF 15 EX. ARCHES<br \/>\nwith 16 signed lithographs<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":19480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"boutique":[199,198],"cat_gallery":[1930],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[407,32],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-18968","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","theme-arts","artistes-bury_pol","boutique-galerie","boutique-librairie","catalogue-042-illustres-modernes-2026","catalogue-030-varia-decembre-2024","cat_gallery-editions-limitees","categories_art-fluxus","forme_dart-lithographie","editeur-fata-morgana","product_cat-arts","product_cat-livres-illustres","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/18968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"boutique","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/boutique?post=18968"},{"taxonomy":"cat_gallery","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_gallery?post=18968"},{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=18968"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=18968"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=18968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}