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Portfolio ‘H’ by Corneille

New in the Olla Art collection is the portfolio ‘H’ by Corneille, a collaboration with the recently deceased gallery owner and art collector Cérès Franco. The latter contributed the rather bizarre texts, devoted to the letter H (‘ache’).

A quote in order to illustrate this:

O Ache
les plaisirs j’adore, O Ache mords moi
le cou O mon H tapilazulitapissé. O
la la la… c’est la pimenta malagueta.

La Ficelle
The portfolio (text and serigraphs) was published in 1974 by occasional printer and publisher La Ficelle in Epinay-sur-Orge (France). It is screen-printed in its entirety on handmade Arches, and encased in a wooden slipcase. The serigraphs are dated 1973 and provided with titles by Corneille: ‘La pucelle’, ‘Danse Africaine’, ‘Le désir sémaphore’, ‘Une reine’ and ‘Les deux amies’.
There seems to be little to no connection between text and images. The plates show a style which is less known from Corneille.
The serigraphs are included as numbers 346 to 350 in the catalogue of the graphic work of Corneille.

Corneille, Les deux amies, 1973

Corneille, Les deux amies, 1973
Zeefdruk uit portfolio H, 32 x 25,2 cm

Information
For more information about this rare edition (condition, price etc.), please contact Olla Art. See also the product page with images of all five serigraphs. For a short biography of Corneille, click here.

Note
Patricia Donkersloot-Van den Berghe (1992). Corneille: The complete graphic works, 1948-1975. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, pp. 261-265.