Sketches, Scribbles, Drawings Blockprint 8 1/8 x 4 1/8

8 1/8 x 4 1/8 x 1 in

Sartre’s extraordinary range of engagement is manifest

Family and community bonds have been a strong influence on the style of images he has created

Sartre also presents a detailed portrait of his friend and fellow writer Paul Nizan (1905–1940)

and allies of the liberation movement

Sketches, Scribbles, Drawings Blockprint 8 1/8 x 4 1/8'A sketch . . . records something that happens between the artist and the object. Now closer to the artist, now closer to the object, but still hanging in the tension in between. Or the memory or recall of that tension. A composite of line, scratches, smears, swabs and dots that recreates an object, it learns its rhythm in the process. And becomes an object by itself. The artist sometimes keeps it to the essentials; at other times he dresses it up and