Collection: Jacques Prévert

Jacques Prévert (1900–1977) is best known as one of the defining voices of twentieth-century French poetry and as the screenwriter behind Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) and other landmarks of poetic realism in French cinema. Less visible in the canonical account of postwar art, but no less sustained, was his parallel practice as a visual artist: collages, assemblages, and poetic image-objects produced across several decades and exhibited in Paris and beyond from the 1950s onward.

The documents gathered here record the institutional reception of that visual work — invitations, announcements, and printed matter issued by galleries and venues that presented Prévert's images to audiences during his lifetime. Each piece is a minor administrative object that has outlasted its occasion. What remains is a printed surface: a name, a place, a set of dates, and the trace of an encounter between a poet's visual practice and the gallery system that briefly held it.