Wolfgang Paalen — “En Hommage” / Octavio Paz Text Insert, Librairie Loliée, Paris, 1960

Original exhibition insert / printed text sheet
Librairie Loliée, Paris, November 1960
Issued in relation to a posthumous Wolfgang Paalen retrospective organised by Géo Dupin
French text by Octavio Paz
Printed in black on cream paper

A small posthumous document for Wolfgang Paalen, carrying an elegiac text by Octavio Paz on one side and a concise loan record on the other. The verso lists three works by Paalen loaned by Mme Géo Dupin: Personnages dans une grotte 1933, Selam Trilogy 1947, and Sans titre 1954.

Paalen moved between Surrealism, Mexico, poetry, science, pre-Columbian culture, and abstraction. His work and writing helped open a route away from orthodox European Surrealism toward a more speculative, cosmological modernism. Paz’s text frames this passage directly: painting as flight, solitude, vertigo, and return to space.

This sheet survives as a secondary object from that circulation. Not the painting, not the catalogue, but the retained support: homage, text, loan list, correction, afterlife.

Condition: Age toning, soft handling creases, light corner wear, minor surface marks consistent with period paper ephemera.

Shipping and handling included. Ships flat, protected, and tracked.