"... de vos demandes (verbales et écrites) vous aurez au moins..."
Unpublished and signed autograph letter addressed to his friend, the Montpellier bookseller Pierre Clerc
S. n.|Paris 17 Novembre 1983|13.50 x 21 cm|une feuille
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Autograph letter signed by Pierre-André Benoit (27 lines in black ink and written from his château at Rivières-de-Theyrargues in the Gard which he has occupied since 1970) addressed to bookseller Pierre Clerc regarding works that the latter had ordered from him. Fold mark inherent to mailing. PAB must travel to Montpellier, as his housekeeper is to have surgery there. He will therefore take the opportunity to meet his bookseller friend and bring him some available works among those he had ordered. Poet, painter, engraver, Pierre-André Benoit or P.A.B. was above all a typographer and printer who produced more than 400 illustrated works bringing together the greatest post-war poets with the most talented painters of the second half of the 20th century. P.A.B.'s productions were initially created on a small press installed in his apartment in Alès. They brought together his poet friends René Char, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Paul Claudel, Erik Satie, Tristan Tzara and his painter friends Joan Miro, Georges Braque, Jean Dubuffet, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso. In 1949, he began using celluloid engraving which allowed him to make the prints himself and create entire books. From his modern château at Rivières-de-Theyrargues, in the Gard, he would eventually illustrate his own works while continuing to work with his faithful friends Camille Bryen and Pierre Alechinsky.