Je ne lave jamais mes dessins. Rome and essential for understanding the

and essential for understanding the artistic landscape of 17th-century Europe

and his prolific work never ceases to amaze and challenge us

Angela Palmentieri e Federico Rausa

jusqu'à la fin des années 1960

son passage à Versailles

Je ne lave jamais mes dessins. Rome and essential for understanding theA painter whose Chteau de Chambord recently hosted a major retrospective, Jean Gilles Badaire has accompanied many writers, from Georges Bataille to Jol Vernet, including Bhattacharya, Caillois, Cendrars, Daumal, Stti and Ungaretti, sublimating the letters of each through his drawings. Author of several works (Faire des tudes pour tre mendiant, La surface des morts, Les rvoltes secrtes), he describes here, in these minutes of his studio, his