• vintage silver print photomontage, 1966
• signed in pencil lower right margin recto
• from the series Le Chaman et ses Creatures (The Shaman and his Creatures)
• image size 7⅞" x 6⅜" (20 x 16 cm.)
• paper size 12" x 9½" (30.5 x 24.1 cm.)
• Provenance:
  Collection Paul Benarroche, Paris
  Gilles Dusein, Paris
• Exhibited:
  Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Jun 4-Sep 12, 1999, catalog no.687 (another example)
  Pierre Molinier Photographe Retrospective, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, Apr 13-Jun 13, 2000 (another example)
• Illustrated:
  Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1999, volume 2, p.798, catalog no.687 (another example)
  Pierre Molinier Photographe, Edition Mennour, Paris, 2000, p.71 (another example)

[F]or the photomontages--in particular those destined for his great work, Le Chaman et ses Creatures--Molinier meticulously cut out his models, limb by limb, head by head, buttock by buttock.  The fragments were piled up in a box that he simply had to dip into at the very moment he was reconstructing the ideal creature....He often kept only those body parts useful in love-making, the head, breasts, buttocks, legs, doing away with the torso and the stomach ....Molinier thus rebuilt by recollage of the legs, asses and heads.  Then he softened the contours with black lead.  He retouched, tinted and shaded his print before rephotographing it, several times if necessary, to the point of using up to 5 internegatives.
-----Pierre Molinier Photographe