Jean-Jacques SEMPÉ (1932 - 2022) Letter from Paul to Solange, 1974 Pen, black ink and collage. Signed lower left. 52 x 79 cm Bibliography Published in 1974 in the album Bonjour Bonsoir pp.18-19 by Denoël Éditeur. Tuesday 17, (2 a.m.) Solange adorée I waited in vain for you in building E, at the corner of elevators E3 and E4. You didn't come. You must have taken E9 or F3, as you do when you're sulking. No doubt you're still holding it against me for my fling (it was, as you well know, only a fling) with the brunette from building H! Need I remind you that, at the time, you yourself were having an affair with you-know-who in Building B? Let's forget about all that! Let's think only of ourselves, of what we once knew. Remember how we met in elevator A7, how I laughed my head off in corridor E of building G, how we ran wild in the QF mezzanine, and how we kissed for the first time in cubicle 129. Answer me, Solange! Answer me or I'll believe that the oaths you swore to me in aisle 75 and the promises you made in the lobby of entrance K were nothing but pipe dreams. Paul