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Char collaborated with the greatest artists of his time: Braque, Picasso, Miró, Giacometti, Nicolas de Staël and Zao-Wou-Ki. Before him, one last artist would join his path: Alexandre Galperine. Born in 1937 in the Russian colony of Boulogne-Billancourt, Galperine studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Ateliers de la Ville de Paris before joining the studio of Henri Goetz, successor to André Lhote. He settled in Provence, where he was close to René Char from 1974 to 1988. Their friendship gave rise to an exclusive and varied body of graphic work, born of the intimacy between the two men. Galperine composed several illuminated manuscripts for Char and enriched his later works with small, delicate and poetic images, always imbued with poetry, illustrating the verses of the poets he cherished.