Collage original réalisé sur une photographie originale de Robert Doisneau

Original collage produced on an original photograph portrait of Robert Doisneau enriched with a handwritten presentation signed by Jacques Prévert Original photograph in contemporary silver print showing Jacques Prévert, in front of the pediment of a church, on which the poet glued an old engraving depicting a bird and which he enriched with a signed handwritten presentation to his friend Jean Mattei. Prévert also, using paint, reddened the end of his cigarette.
Stamp of the Doisneau studio in Montrouge on the back of the picture. One central fold.

On this rare photograph, reproduced in the book Rue Jacques Prévert by Robert Doisneau, the poet poses in front of the Catéchismes chapel of the Église Saint-Jacques-Saint-Christophe de la Villette, situated in the 19th arrondissement in Paris.
Jean Mattei, dedicatee of this work, was Chagall and André Gide's doctor and lived in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.