Signed, in pencil, lower right: recto and verso: Alechinsky
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: recto and verso: proof of artist Inscribed, in blue, throughout lower image, clockwise, various inscriptions in French: Allez-y, | Expliquez-vous! [Go on, explain yourself!] Quoi? [What?] Il y a des limites [There are limits] NON, NON ET NON [NO, NO AND NO] Tenez, par exemple | moi, si j'avais le | temps, j'en ferais | autant [Take for example, myself, if I had the time, I'd do so much] parlons | sérieusement | à part la peinture | que faites-vois | dans la vie? [let's talk seriously, other than painting, what do you do in life?] Faut être un spécialiste, comme on dit. [Must be a specialist, as they say.] je ne | comprends | pas [I don't undestand] je n'y vois rien [I don't see anything] on a déjà fait | cela avant | la guerre [we already did this before the war] on devrait interdir [we should forbid]
