Pierre MOLINIER – Original photomontage – “On the Pavois”. 1969.

Pierre MOLINIER (1900-1976)

Original photomontage – On the Pavois.

Vintage silver gelatin print. Circa 1969.

Plate 26 from The Shaman and His Creatures

Size: 22.20 x 16.70 cm. Stamp on the back.

In her 1971 work, Surrealism and Sexuality , Xavière Gauthier, in the margins of the reproduction of the photomontage, expresses the following viewpoint regarding Molinier's mythical photograph: " If Surrealism was anything, it was certainly in the perversions promoted by its painters and some of its writers. The point of impact of Surrealism, its truth, is located exactly below the center of Pierre Molinier's photomontage, On the Shield. It is located between the widely spread buttocks of a woman whose legs, encased in long black stockings, are repeated and multiplied."

Bibliography:

. Pierre Molinier, The Shaman and his creatures , William Blake & Co. Publishers, Bordeaux, 1995, plate 26, page 41.

. Jean-Luc Mercié, Pierre Molinier, monograph, Les presses du réel-Kamel Mennour, Paris 2010, pp 302 and 368.