François Xavier LALANNE (1927-2008) - Lot 3

François Xavier LALANNE (1927-2008) and Eugène IONESCO (1909-1994) Rhinoceros. Black felt-tip drawing on two pages signed FXL. 1966. And a blue-pen letter from Eugène Ionesco with a small self-portrait: "Heureux de connaitre la Cafetière" ("Happy to know the Cafetière"). From guestbook no. 1 of the café-restaurant La Cafetière, rue Mazarine, Paris. 25 x 50 cm Two small drops of coffee. On verso, a letter from Michel de Saint Pierre. Enclosed is a small book: Claude &François-Xavier LALANNE, Fragments, Editions Acatos, Exhibition JGM Galerie April-May 2000, with autograph dispatch from both artists to Jean Romestant. The author and the artist meet again around the theme of Rhinoceros, whose play E.Ionesco wrote in 1959 and F.X. Lalanne declined in his bestiary from 1964. Provenance: Private collection of the restaurant La Cafetière, estate of Jean Romestant and Leonel Costa Jorge.