Trois tableaux – Sept dessins – Un texte
Limited to 60 copies (no. 10), complete with the 10 plates, numbered I to X, each with a gelatin silver print.
Published by subscription in a small print run of 60 copies, the work was printed in Revel — not far from where Bellmer then found himself, the wartime years having taken him south, to Castres and then Carcassonne — by the printer Armand Lapeyre. This publication briefly renewed his ties with Breton after their prewar falling-out: as Jean Brun (subscriber to copy no. 1) later explained, “He dedicated the book published in Revel to André Breton because at the time Breton was being criticized by those who reproached him for having left for the United States during the Occupation. Hence a fragile reconciliation between Bellmer and Breton, and his participation in the 1947 exhibition […].”
The text was later reused in another illustrated book by Bellmer, Mode d’emploi, published by Georges Visat in 1967, accompanying drawings originally intended for an illustrated edition of André Pieyre de Mandiargues’s L’Anglais décrit dans le château fermé.