24 x R. Joly - 64 - Xavier Robel

24 x R. Joly - 64 by Xavier Robel / 5.5 x 8 inches, 24-page b/w photocopied zine published by Nieves in 2025, limited to 150 copies *** "The drawings in this zine are based on a painting I bought many years ago for 10 Swiss francs at the flea market in Geneva. Since then, it has served as a kind of disruptive guest in many of my exhibitions – sometimes as part of the show, sometimes hidden away. The only thing I knew about the painting was that it was signed R. Joly /64. Over time, I’ve made several remakes of it. The first two of those appeared in a publication with Tsar Books back in 2021, along with some clues about a discovery related to the painting. As it turns out, a friend had come across an obituary for the cartoonist Gahan Wilson (1930–2019) that was illustrated by a selection of his drawings spanning his long career. One of them (originally published in the October 1964 issue of Playboy magazine) looked very familiar. My painting, also dating from 1964, happens to be a remak