Raymond Douillet: Grand Ouvre, 2012
LE GRASDIMAR DE BLAISE RA
THE CARNIVAL OF ST. BLAISE / RABELAIS (Blaise Ra = Ra Blaise = Rabelais)
oil on canvas (51.2" x 114.2")
Douillet comments:
Tableau peint par Débarras, artiste dont Raymond Roussel (grand amateur lui aussi de carnaval) nous parle à plusieurs reprises dans ses livres. [Note: Douillet later revised his comment, "Tableau peint par Débarras en collaboration avec Jerjeck."]
Au dos de cette toile, cette inscription: "Il est conseillé d'aller à l'Abbaye Saint Victor de Marseille et à Almonacid Del Marqesado en Espagne mais surtout de lire,lire, lire et relire Alcofribas Nasier et quelques autres."
Translation:
Picture painted by Débarras, artist about whom Raymond Roussel (also a great lover of carnival) speaks to us again and again in his works. [Note: Débarras is a fictional creation of Roussel in his story "Among the Blacks". He is a rather shabby but brilliant artist. Jerjeck, his "collaborator", is another Roussel creation in Locus Solus -- a once-dead sculptor "resurrected" by a surreal scientist.]
On the back of this canvas, this inscription: "it is recommended to go to the Abbey Saint Victor of Marseilles and to Almonacid Del Marqesado in Spain but especially to read, to read, to read and to reread Alcofribas Nasier [Rabelais] and some others."
















