Lucien CLERGUE (1934-2014) "Les sables", 1962, black and white silver print, copy number 1/20. Signed on the back, lower right. Bears reference number 126. 50x60.5 cm Please note: The language of sand : Feeling the need to have his creative intuition validated by an academic endorsement, Lucine Clergue returned to the beaches of the Camargue to submit a doctoral thesis in photography, Langage des sables, which he defended before Roland Barthes in 1979. Based on abstract, ephemeral forms and drawings left on the sand, this exclusively graphic work its structure, to the point of being validated in the absence of any theoretical text. (cf. Grand Palais, Galeries nationales Paris, November 14, 2015 - February 15, 2016, LUCIEN CLERGUE Les premiers albums).

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