Francis PICABIA (1879-1953). Autograph manuscript signed, Pour et Contre Bien et Beau, March 1950; 7 1/2 pages small in-4 (small squares). "It is today, March 21, 1950, that hidden: to myself, I write these lines in the corner of a ruined house, but she is too vain to know it. Conversation between two friends, one who loves women, the other men: one day [Tresbot biffé] X stood in front of his friend [Jules L'Etourdit] Y and asked him this strange question: what do you know about love? As he didn't want to answer in a dazed and shameless way, he laid his hands flat, wanting to transform his friend's question: but finding nothing to say, he asked him with a comma and you? Women, naturally. And me, men, not naturally"... Etc.