"L'écrit, le signe" catalogue (1991)

Paris, France: Centre Georges Pompidou (exhibition catalogue), 1991.
11.75” x 8.25” x 0.375”, 96 pages, softcover, perfect bound, ISBN 2-902706-49-9.

L'écrit, le signe: Autour de quelques dessins d'écrivains, a catalog of drawings by writers, produced by the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France) for an exhibition between 23 October 1991 – 20 January 1992. Exhibition curation by Annie Cohen and Blandine Benoit. Catalogue edited by Sylvaine Dailleau and Marcelle Gautrot. Graphic design by Gilles Seegmuller. Photography by Michèle Hautefeuille. Produced by Bernadette Borel Lorie.

The front cover shows an untitled 1959 calligraphic painting by Brion Gysin. Pages 60–61 are dedicated to Gysin, with a short biography, and reproductions of an untitled 1960 calligraphic work, and a 1963 grid and calligraphic painting, both reproduced in grayscale.

Contents:

• Remerciements
• Michel Melot: "Écrire ou dessiner: Là est la question" (essay)
• Annie Cohen: "Les raisons d'un choix ou les déraisons d'une double pratique" (essay)
• Bernard Noël: "La trace et l'empreinte" (essay)
• Michel Thévoz: "Chemins de contrebande" (essay)
• Émilienne Farny: "Dessin à l'âge de cinq ans" (drawing)
• Aloïse: "Graphismes sur une page de cahier" (drawing)
• Emmanuel: "Dessin nº 17" (watercolor)
• Laure: "Page de cahier" (drawing)
• Adolf Wölfi: "Skt. Adolf-Fontteine-Insel-Ring-Reisen-Schlange" (drawing)
• Francis Palanc:
• "L'amoureux isolé" (drawing)
• "Explication cryptographique du tableau intitulé Lorsque je te vois" (drawing)
• Jules Doudin: "Dessin et inscriptions au crayon sur une page de carnet" (drawings, two)
• Rafael Alberti: "Naïade" (drawing, 1984)
• Antonin Artaud: "Portrait de Minouche Pastier" (drawing, 1947)
• Jacques Audiberti: untitled c. 1950 drawings
• William S. Burroughs:
• "The Face on the room floor" (painting and collage, 1988)
• "Portrait of Señor Kaposi" (painting, 1989)
• Jeanne Champion: "Pluton vu par l'Arabie Saoudite" (ink and collage, 1940)
• René-Jean Clot:
• "L'Arbre de vie" (ink, colored pencil, and gouache, 1980)
• "L'Arbre de vie" (colored pencil and gouache, n.d.)
• "L'Arbre de vie" (colored pencil and gouache, 1986)
• "Arbres" (colored pencil and gouache, 1979)
• Jean Cocteau: "Portrait de Max Jacob" (ink drawing, 1961)
• Annie Cohen: 
• "Motif oriental" (ink drawing, 1989)
• "Rouleau d'écriture nº 37" (ink drawing, 1986)
• "Rouleau d'écriture nº 48" (ink drawing, 1986)
• "Superbe après-midi à Versailles" (gouache, 1985)
• Jean Demélier: three untitled graphite, oil, and ink drawings, c.1988
• Fred Deux: 
• "Nostalgie des masques (Nostalgie des symboles)" (colored pencil and watercolor, 1990)
• "Le Refuge" (colored pencil and watercolor, 1990)
• Christian Dotremont: 
• "Logogramme 'Dans la Finlège hivernale...'" (ink drawing, 1975)
• "Logogramme 'C'est écrit c'est écrit...'" (ink drawing, 1975)
• Lawrence Durrell: "Bateau dans un port méditerranéen" (watercolor, 1976)
• Louis-René des Forets:
• "L'homme à la méduse" (gouache and ink, c. 1975–1978)
• "À la fenêtre" (gouache and ink, c. 1975–1978)
• "Exorcisme" (gouache and ink, c. 1975–1978)
• "Bataille dans les colonnes" (gouache and ink, c. 1975–1978)
• Günter Grass: "Radis noir" (graphite, 1972)
• Christian Guez Ricord: 
• "Vignettes" (ink, 1982–1983)
• "Vignettes" (ink, 1985–1986)
• "Vignettes" (ink, 1983)
• Brion Gysin:
• untitled 1959 calligraphic painting (cover)
• untitled 1960 calligraphic ink drawing
• untitled 1963 gouache calligraphic and grid painting
• Hermann von Keyserling: "Portrait d'André Gide" (ink, 1903)
• Alfred Kubin: "Léda et le cygne" (ink and watercolor, n.d.)
• Norman Mailer: "Visage" (pen drawing, 1991)
• Henri Michaux: 
• "Dessin Mescalinien" (ink drawing, 1959)
• "Un personnage ton bistre" (ink drawing, 1946–1948)
• "Forme rouge" (watercolor, 1957)
• Henry Miller: 
• "Chat, visage et maisons" (gouache, 1967)
• "Couple" (colored pencil, 1973)
• Bernard Noël: 
• three "Terre de couleurs" paintings (watercolor, 1987)
• "Terre d'ombre" (watercolor, 1987)
• Valere Novarina: 
• "Sortants" (ink and colored pencil, 1988)
• "Musiciens rivaux" (ink and colored pencil, 1988)
• "Mort espacé" (ink and colored pencil, 1988)
• "Visiteur de soi" (ink and colored pencil, 1988)
• "Musiciens embarqués" (ink and colored pencil, 1988)
• "Echelles de hotiers" (ink and colored pencil, 1988)
• Jean-Luc Parant:
• untitled ink and colored pencil drawing, 1987
• untitled ink drawing, 1988
• untitled ink and colored pencil drawing, 1988
• Georges Perros:
• "Dans la cuisine" (etching, n.d.)
• "Retour de Venise" (etching, n.d.)
• "Le Bouquet" (gouache and ink, 1976)
• "Le Chien aux lunettes" (gouache and ink, 1977)
• "Tout prévu" (gouache and ink, 1977)
• "Encre" (ink and gouache, 1976)
• "Rimbaud?" (ink, gouache, and varnish, 1976)
• "Petit Bonhomme" (gouache, n.d.)
• Raymond Queneau: untitled gouache and ink drawing, 1948
• Serge Rezvani: untitled ink drawings, 1990
• Ernesto Sabato: "Nu" (ink, 1989)
• Severo Sarduy: 
• "Tableau manuscrit" (acrylic, 1990)
• "Pagina" (acrylic, 1990)
• Alberto Savinio: "Drop cloth for the Tales of Hoffman" (graphite, 1949)
• Unica Zürn: 
• untitled ink drawing, 1963
• untitled etching, 1967
• Table des matières
• Crédits photographiques