Josep Baqué was born in Barcelona in the late19th century. He was a municipal police officer and during his lifetime never declared himself as an artist. Since early 1930s and for the following decades he produced more than 1500 drawings of "monsters, wonders and rare events" made in ink and gouache on paper, some embellished with gold and silver. He created army of imaginary creatures, strange and unusual, mixing human and animal traits or characteristics of different types (cats, primitive men, bats and insects, giant spiders, snakes, snails, octopus, cuttlefish, seafood, fowl, fish...) Baqué died in 1967 and left his niece, his sole heir, his fantastic bestiary isolated away from light for nearly 40 years. In 2007, the famous College of Pataphysics organized an exhibition of 160 monsters and published a lengthy article in the journal of pataphysicians Viridis Candela.
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"... ils amenèrent sur la rive un énorme poisson, avec une tête de singe, une
autre de chien, une autre de cheval, une autre de renard, une autre de
porc, une autre de tigre et ainsi jusqu’au nombre de cent. Le Bouddha
lui demanda :
— N’es-tu pas Kapila?
— Je suis Kapila, répondirent les Cent-Têtes avant de mourir...."
J.L.Borges - Le livre des êtres imaginaires - 1957
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