Provocator, Serge Gainsbourg answers the Proust questionnaire.

Serge Gainsbourg (1928.1991)

Autograph notes.

Aphorisms and Proust questionnaire.

A large in-folio page (42 x 30 cm) partly printed.

Without place or date [Paris. 1986]

“Bullshit is the relaxation of intelligence. »»

Gainsbourg corrects its tests. In preparation of the book to him devoted to Denoël, by Franck Lhomeau and Alain Coelho, the artist with biffe, annotates and corrects the test game relating to his thoughts and aphorisms then, for the one and only time of his existence, to his answers to the questionnaire of Proust.

After the declination of around twenty thoughts such as: “ I succeeded everything. Except for my life "," Beauty is the only revenge of women "," My Rolls is my Steinway "or " Bullshit is the relaxation of intelligence ", Gainsbourg responds with provocation and an unwavered delight, mixing humor and serious, to the legendary questionnaire of Marcel Proust.

The sheet is of a very spectacular format (42 x 30 cm) and the layout of the Gainsbourian annotations make this document a real table.

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What is the height of misery for you?

Lack of ass.

Where would you like to live?

Outside myself.

I mean there next to my pumps.

Your ideal of terrestrial happiness?

Women's toilets at Maxim's

For what faults do you have the most indulgence?

Tapping faults… physical contact.

What are the novel heroes you prefer?

Emma Bovary, Dolorès Hase [sic] and Marylin Monroe.

What is your favorite historical figure?

Soap because he had the same nose as me.

Mickey Maousse.

Your favorite heroines in real life?

Bardot, Birkin, Deneuve , Bambou.

Your heroines in fiction?

Bamboo, Deneuve , Birkin, Bardot.

Three B, three stupids.

Beasts with accent. Not as idiots but as an animal beast.

It's fiction.

No, affliction.

Your favorite painter?

Francis Bacon.

The one in a building, because Hyper realistic.

Your favorite quality in humans?

Fourberie.

Tail question.

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Gainsbourg. Alain Coelho and Franck Lhomeau, Denoël editions. 1986.