Jacques Prevert - Original Collage - Surrealism

Jacques PREVERT (1900 - 1977), French poet and screenwriter
The Faustian Theatre at Saint John Lateran
Rare original collage on unsigned paper. Shows traces of mounting on the back. Good condition.Dimensions: 43 x 32 cmPosthumous authentication dated January 28, 1987 by Janine Prévert, widow of Jacques Prévert, on the back of the collage.Surrealist composition in which the anticlerical poet gives free rein to his imagination to give his ironic vision of the clergy, where a parterre of bishops prostrates itself before the devil, in the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, church of the Bishop of Rome.Jacques Prévert passed through religious teaching. He retained a holy horror of the divine comedy of dogmas and "isms". In his collages, the cult servants are grotesque, depicted with "pince-nez over their hearts." Jacques Prévert built his reputation as a visual artist around his splendid surrealist collages, tinged with poetry, which have been the subject of several exhibitions, notably at the Maeght Foundation in Saint Paul de Vence.