ÉTIENNE-MARTIN (1913-1995). "Demeures", 1955. Bronze patina signed, numbered 0/6 and dated. Height : 41 cm - Width : 43 cm - Depth : 23 cm Provenance : - Private collection of a member of the collector's collective La Peau du Chat, then by descent. Note : Inspired by the house in Loriol, in the Drôme region of France, then after "Hommage à Lovecraft". This "dwelling" evokes the Lovecraftian universe, i.e. a loss of spatial and temporal reference points, while at the same time giving off a sensation of disquieting strangeness. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a writer with a fantastic universe. "When I made 'Homage to Lovecraft', I felt there had to be something more to it than sculpture. In each form, there was an event that I had experienced in my skin", remarks by the artist reported by Ragon Michel, Étienne-Martin, Bruxelles, La Connaissance, 1970, page 20. Then all these cells, I said to myself: "But that's it, those are the rooms!", "Entretien de l'artiste avec Jean-Pierre Rehm", in Étienne-Martin, Valence, C.R.A.C, 1992, page 28.