This drawing was produced for the book El Tretze Vents (Céret, Musée d’Art moderne, 1983), an edition of 85 copies that included 21 unpublished texts, 3 lithographs, a print and 17 unique works. Claude Viallat entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier in 1955 and stayed there for 4 years before entering the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1962, where he worked in Raymond Legueult’s studio. In 1964, he became a teacher at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Nice, before moving to Limoges in 1967. He was one of the founding members of the Support/Surface movement in 1969, alongside Dezeuze and Saytour. In the 1960s, he adopted a ‘printmaking process adapted to any shape pressed onto an unstretched, unprimed canvas’ (Collectif, Viallat une rétrospective, Paris, Somogy éditions d’art, 2014, p. 39); the resulting shape was to recur throughout his career.