Schuiten, François - Grande couverture - Les Cités Obscures T.10- Chinese ink - (2007)
Brüsel, July 21st, 784. Constant Abeels patiently lists the stones mysteriously materializing in the different rooms of his apartment. All stones have the exact the same weight: 6,793 grams - a prime number. . . In a nearby building, a mother finds out that sand is similarly accumulating with regularity in her apartment, to the great pleasure of her children, while a little further, the owner and head chef of the famous brewery Maurice finds out he is losing weight, yet without growing thinner. . . And these strange phenomena are growing as the days go by. . . Schuiten and Peeters reconnect with the inimitable atmosphere of the cycle of ‘Les Cités Obscures’, in a captivating plot that takes up with the spirit of their best albums once again. . . LARGE FORMAT: Size: 44. 5 x 60 cm. Ink. Signed.
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Brüsel, July 21st, 784. Constant Abeels patiently lists the stones mysteriously materializing in the different rooms of his apartment. All stones have the exact the same weight: 6,793 grams - a prime number. . . In a nearby building, a mother finds out that sand is similarly accumulating with regularity in her apartment, to the great pleasure of her children, while a little further, the owner and head chef of the famous brewery Maurice finds out he is losing weight, yet without growing thinner. . . And these strange phenomena are growing as the days go by. . . Schuiten and Peeters reconnect with the inimitable atmosphere of the cycle of ‘Les Cités Obscures’, in a captivating plot that takes up with the spirit of their best albums once again. . . LARGE FORMAT: Size: 44. 5 x 60 cm. Ink. Signed.
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