123 - WAX FIGURES EXPOSED

WAX FIGURES EXPOSED Surrealistic image from Pierre-Alain Jolivet’s film *Le Grand cérémonial* (based on the play by Arrabal), rated R, 1969. Photograph, color-enhanced print (particularly on a pair of stiletto heels and a piece of lingerie); credits below the image; blank reverse. 23 x 29 cm, including titled margin. Note: Blurring the lines between cinema, theater, and surrealism, this image from *Le Grand Cérémonial* transforms the wax figures into strange and provocative presences. The color highlights further accentuate the unusual atmosphere of this composition, emblematic of the transgressive spirit of the late 1960s.