JEAN-CLAUDE GAUTRAND 1932-2019 - Lot 56

JEAN-CLAUDE GAUTRAND 1932-2019 Forteresses du Dérisoire series, Cap de la Hague, 1974. Photograph. Posterior silver print signed, dated and numbered 2/30 in ink under the image and signed, titled, dated, numbered and stamped by the author on the back. Image: 20.1 x 29.8 cm; sheet: 29.8 x 39.6 cm "From Cap de la Hague to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer via Morbihan, Royan and the Landes, Jean-Claude Gautrand toured France's beaches and cliffs. He hunted monsters. Not the whale or sperm whale, but the bunker. What remains, thirty-five years on, of the famous Atlantic Wall that was supposed to stand in the way of an Allied landing? His investigation answers this question with a grandiose and sinister beauty..." Michel Tournier