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The booklet also includes two prefaces in French, one for the monochrome artworks and one for the funeral march. In the preface to the monochromes, Allais wrote that other painters were "ridicules artisans qui ont besoin de mille couleurs différentes pour exprimer leurs pénibles conceptions" and
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gives the story of an artist painting the
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in Paris on 1 April 1897, and was sold for one franc. The work is generally known by its French title, which may be translated into
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had uncovered a hand-written inscription in the white border that may read "Negroes battling in a cave", suggesting
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landscape pages, 18.5 by 12 centimetres (7.3 in × 4.7 in), bound with card, was published by
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printings by nearly two decades. It was reported in 2015 that X-ray analysis of one version of
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no.7 in 1843, satirising the very dark canvas exhibited at the 1843 Salon by Jean-Louis Petit. In
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covering two pages. Each piece was given a humorous title in French.
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Erik Satie's Trois
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cards introducing monochrome presentations, such as
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