DEBORD, Guy. Untitled. 10 x 15 cm; mixed technique on postcard. Signed “guy” and postmarked 11/04/1981

Spectacular metagraphie by Guy Debord, in the pure Situationist tradition. It was mailed to Michele Mochot-Bréhat, nicknamed “La Tortue” by Debord.

Debord met Mochot-Bréhat in Cannes in 1953. She is featured in the film Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps (On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time) in 1959, then appears as the character of “Carole” in Michele Bernstein’s novel Tous les chevaux du Roi (All the King’s Horses) the following year. Mochot-Bréhat would remain close with the Debord couple through the 1980s – her letters leave no doubt as to their nature of their relationship…