(Boulogne-Billancourt, 1935)
To be opened in case of danger
Collage, ink, metal, small glass vial on cardboard placed in a red leather and velvet box
Signed with initials on the cardboard at the bottom right
38×28cm
Provenance:
- Sale in Paris, Loudmer, October 12, 1994
- Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn Collection, Paris
Note: He created his first work for the International Surrealism Exhibition organized in 1959 at the Daniel Cordier Gallery in Paris. Following this experience, he created several boxes, including lot 33, Silbermann exhibited a box, presented in Mimi Parent's Crypt of Fetishism. Following this experience, he created several boxes, including lot 33, before devoting himself to the wooden “sly signs” that he exhibited from 1964 onwards (see lot 48).
