Guestbook Of Jean And Gina's Restaurant Le Chateau Briand, Circa 1960

Guestbook of the Chateaubriand restaurant, owned by Jean and Gina Forno, on rue Chabrol near the Gare de l'Est in Paris. containing more than 175 signed autograph inscriptions and numerous signed drawings (pen, watercolor, colored pencils, pastel), between 1960 and 1980; quarto, 131 pages. Brown morocco binding (one hinge broken). Located opposite the first studio of Fernand Mourlot, famous for the lithographs he printed by Matisse, Braque, Bonnard, Rouault, Miró, Fautrier, Dubuffet, Picasso, etc., the restaurant was known for the contemporary artworks displayed on its walls. The first signatory of this guestbook was Fernand Mourlot himself. Following are entries from artists, art critics, writers, and figures in the entertainment industry, along with numerous drawings, often full-page, by André Beaudin, Paul Guiramand, and Isis Kischka. Luis Mariano, Mané-Katz, Auauste Durel, Jimmy Ernst, Xavier Commère, Walter Spitzer, René Genis, Guy Bardone, Poucette, Pierre Garcia-Fons, Jean-Pierre Capron, Maurice Verdier, Edelmann, Gabriel Zerndel. Gabriel Godard, Jean Monneret Armand Lanoux, Jean Carton, Michel Adlen, Luc Simon, Pierre Letellier, Ortega, Pierre Henry, Claude Nougaro, Masuo Ikeda, etc. Thoughts and inscriptions by André Dassarv, Georges Besson, André Brasilier, Nadia Léger, D.H. Kahnweiler, Michel Leiris, Elsa Triolet, Aragon, Le Corbusier, Annie Cordy, André Girard, Joseph Kessel. Édouard Bonnefous. Jean Bouret. Jacques Brel, Pierre Dux, Lino Ventura Carlos, Jean Yanne, Paul Bocuse, etc.