Signed; Pierre Alechinsky - Dessins d'Alechinsky [with dedication] - 1978

[Pierre Alechinsky - The drawings of Alechinsky at the National Museum of Modern Art. Paris, Centre Pompidou, 1978 - 40 pages. WITH the Dutch translation of the catalog text inserted - 2 pages. - Signs of wear, but complete and intact.

With a remarkable, autograph-signed dedication in red ballpoint. With a new line for each word, with parallel text in mirror writing in blue ballpoint: "Pour les deux van Eyck (*) comme toujour leur Pierre Alechinsky [only in red pen:] le 22 sep 1978 Dordrecht".

(*) From the collection of Aldo van Eyck with whom Alechinsky was friendly. Early involvement with Van Eyck in the Cobra movement. In 1949 Willem Sandberg asked him to organize the Cobra exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Van Eyck had, from 1951, an architectural firm. In 1952 he designed, together with Constant Nieuwenhuys, a space for the exhibition ‘Mens en huis’ of 1952-1953 at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Incidentally, Alechinsky often used the mirror-writing gimmick in the text. Probably only for his intimate friends and admirers.