Fred - Lot 183

Fred FRED PHILÉMON L'Âne en atoll (T.9), Dargaud 1977 Original plate no. 28, prepublished in Pilote Mensuel n° 22 of March 1976. Signed. India ink on paper 32.5 × 41 cm (12.8 × 16.14 in.) 4 000 - 5 000 € In this ninth album, Fred takes Philémon and Barthélémy to a tiny, donkey-shaped island lost in the ocean of Atlantic letters. Prisoners of this absurd space, they face new adventures populated by zany creatures and poetic paradoxes. Here we find Fred's dreamlike, humorous universe, as well as his highly personal drawing style, inherited from Chaval, and his taste for storytelling, where fantasy and melancholy conceal a profound reflection on freedom and the senselessness of the modern world. An unequalled summit of graphic poetry.