Grimaud Michel/Surrealist drawing made in thanks for Tania from the Pepperland bookstore. India ink and collage of photos around 1985. Rare. TBE a crease in the middle. Format A4 Michel Grimaud is the collective pseudonym of Marcelle Perriod (1937-2011) and her husband Jean-Louis Fraysse (1946-2011), two French writers living and working as a couple from 1968 to Marcelle Perriod's death in 2011. Their favorite genres are science fiction, detective stories and children's and youth literature.

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