Paul Bilhaud
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Paul Bilhaud (born in Allichamps, December 31, 1854 - Avon, 1933) was a French poet and dramatist who belonged to the avant-garde group the Incoherents. He is the author of an all-black painting called Negroes Fighting in a Cellar at Night.
On October 1 1882 the "Exposition des Arts Incohérents" in Paris featured a black painting by the poet Paul Bilhaud titled Combat de nègres dans une cave pendant la nuit, which was appropriated in 1887 by the French humorist Alphonse Allais, in Album primo-avrilesque (April fool-ish Album) of monochrome pictures of various colors, with uniformly ornamental frames, each bearing a comical title. Allais called his all-red painting Tomato Harvest by Apoplectic Cardinals on the Shore of the Red Sea.
Negroes Fighting in a Cellar at Night predates Malevich's, Black Square on a White Field by 31 years.
Literary career
Auteur de monologues célèbres tels Le Hanneton (1879). Il écrit avec Braré , puis avec Hennequin de nombreux vaudevilles aux péripéties comiques. Quelques livrets pour les compositeurs Lecocq et Serpette, et des livrets pour enfants illustrés par Job, des poèmes… Il reste le père du célèbre monochrome reproduit par Alphonse Allais dans son album primo-avrilesque : “ Combat de nègres dans une cave pendant la nuit “.
