UNTITLED. C. 1966. UNIQUE COLLAGE & PAINTING ON POSTCARD. SIGNED & DATED.

9 x 14cm, commercial French photo-postcard showing a street scene upon which Cobbing has glued torn circles of black paper on the tree and then in turn painted numbers in white over each piece. Two other small trees have the numbers 1 painted over them. The whole card is signed and dated bottom  left also in thick white paint. The date is hard to make out but possibly “66”.

The entire card has been glued onto a black card at some point which has been partially removed to reveal part of a message in ink beneath – the message cannot be read but the stamp and frank can be seen if hard to read.

The card is unique and was probably made at a time when Cobbing was contributing to Henri Chopin’s OU and was close to Francois Dufrene. It would be helpful if the rest of the black backing card could be removed to allow the writing and the address to be seen in full.

The card came indirectly from the collection of Francois Norguet.