Le recueil. Littérature Exploring territories is at the

Exploring territories is at the origin of her approach to painting

a key to the discovery of a world that few people have had the chance to explore

Yet she lived there for over sixty years and spent her entire career there

For Robert Delaunay (1885-1941)

During the summer of 1944

Le recueil. Littérature Exploring territories is at theThere is undoubtedly something encyclopedic here (this desire to present, to organize large swathes of knowledge) although it is also, above all, a sort of bewildering, absolutely dizzying mixture, a variety of compiled subjects, which is in the spirit of miscellanies. The manuscript comprises some 300 leaves containing texts and images from books and engravings, including biblical and monarchical chronologies, an illustrated calendar, proverbs,