"The barrier is broken / and the wheel of thunder / stands next to the aviary / which mourns the rooster of the stew / to celebrate the abundance / of the rocky land / where luck smiled / after calamitous times"
2.500€
Gaston CHAISSAC (1910.1964)
Original signed drawing.
India ink on paper. Signed in the lower right margin.
Dated " mid-September 59 " and dedicated to Theodore Koenig.
One page in quarto (21 x 26 cm)
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Superb abstract drawing dedicated to the Belgian surrealist artist, Théodore Koenig.
On the back of the drawing, Chaissac wrote a poem dedicated to Malraux.
Eight verses signed and dated from Ste Florence, September 16, 1959.
To André Malraux.
The barrier is broken / and the wheel of thunder /
next to the aviary / which mourns the rooster of the fricassee /
to celebrate the abundance / of the rocky land /
where luck smiled / after calamitous times /
Gaston Chaissac.
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Théodore Kœnig (1922-1996) Belgian poet, ceramist, surrealist collagist, was the co-founder of the magazine Phantomas in 1953, a converging factor between Dada, Cobra and Surrealism.