Accession number
PML 198742.5
Creator
Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907.
Published
Brussels, Belgium, 1902 March 22.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2021.
Notes
Inscribed on the recto of a hand-colored postcard depicting the famous fountain statue known as Mannekin Pis, dressed in a costume, hat, and holding a baton, captioned 'Bruxelles. Mannekin-Pis. Grande tenue de jour de fête. Deposé.' Image initialed E.G. (Émile Greningaire?) and numbered 541.
Jarry and Demolder have signed their full names below Jarry's message; the postscript is signed P. Ubu.
Addressed to Rachilde at the Mercure de France, 15 rue de l'Echaudé St Germain, Paris (France); stamped and postmarked: Bruxelles, 22 Mars [19]02.
Jarry and Demolder have signed their full names below Jarry's message; the postscript is signed P. Ubu.
Addressed to Rachilde at the Mercure de France, 15 rue de l'Echaudé St Germain, Paris (France); stamped and postmarked: Bruxelles, 22 Mars [19]02.
Description
1 item ; 14 x 9 cm
Provenance
Tipped into a copy of Ubu roi (Paris: Mercure de France, 1897), formerly owned by Paul Eluard, later in the Collection Geneviève & Jean-Paul Kahn, acquired at their sale, Pierre Bergé, 18.vi.21, lot 9.
Summary
Referring to the image of the sculpture on the postcard of "the little pissing man," Jarry writes "Thus we have evangelized the people." Adding a vertical postscript on the right of the image: "This is a reduction, the paper has drunk part of it. P. Ubu."
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