«The rest of my speech —he explained to his men—, you shall hear when I’ve leisure to speak it.
But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again,‘Tis your glorious duty to seek it!»

Lewis Carroll, THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK, 1876. 

This book is a veritable bibliographical landmark, due in equal measure to its intrinsic value and its special significance. Antoni Tàpies produced the suite of drawings between 1950-1951, the culminating moment of his oneiric period, when the hallmark of Surrealism and the consolidation of his own personality were crystallizing in works that reached extraordinary heights.

At the end of the nineties, Fernado Bryce (Lima 1965) gave up painting and devoted himself entirely to drawing. He produced a work based on what he calls the mimetic method of analysis, i.e., an ink copy of a series of photographs, newspaper cuttings, advertisements, promotional publicity or popular propaganda, among other documents, taken from archives ans libraries.

Bibliophile Edition: 125 copies. All the copies measure 25 x 18 cm. and contain 44 pages in Catalan. Certificate of authenticity signed by the artists. Albert Ràfols-Casamada has grown over the years. His tremendous sensitivity, his rigor and his reduction of the pictorial to the truly essential have made him an artist who has established his own line and who has wielded particular influence over the generations that have followed him. His work as a poet is not unrelated to the character of his painting, and soon earned him recognition as one of the leading figures in the Catalan lyric.