"... une bonne année commencée avec le soleil ce qui donne envie de circuler..."

Autograph signed card from Pierre-André Benoit (8 lines in black ink, written from his château at Rivières-de-Theyrargues in the Gard, which he has occupied since 1970) addressed to the bookseller Pierre Clerc, to whom he extends his wishes for 1984.
The card is illustrated on the recto with a reproduction of a drawing by Joan Miró accompanied by a phrase from Saint Teresa of Avila, envelope included.
The sunny winter favors PAB's good humor: "... une bonne année commencée avec le soleil ce qui donne envie de circuler..." ["... a good year begun with sunshine which makes one want to get about..."] who suggests to his bookseller friend that he come to lunch at his home soon.
Poet, painter, engraver, Pierre-André Benoit or P.A.B. was above all a typographer and printer who created more than 400 illustrated works bringing together the greatest post-war poets with the most talented painters of the second half of the twentieth century.
P.A.B.'s productions were first realized on a small press installed in his apartment in Alès. They brought together his poet friends René Char, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Paul Claudel, Erik Satie, Tristan Tzara and his painter friends Joan Miró, Georges Braque, Jean Dubuffet, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso. In 1949, he began to use celluloid engraving which allowed him to make the prints himself and to create the books entirely. From his modern château at Rivières-de-Theyrargues, in the Gard, he would end up illustrating his works himself while continuing to work with his faithful friends Camille Bryen and Pierre Alechinsky.