Nadau wrote the Sackners that this work was made between Winter 2001 and Summer 2002 - about 8 months. He planned the work on several pieces of paper taped together. The word Adiabatique in one of the sentences of the drawing is a thermodynamic term. It was used for the title of a painting done with a donkey's tail prompted by Picasso and friends. The original title of the painting was "Coucher de Soliel sur L'Adiabatique; Nadau modified this to "Coucher de Lunettes sur Une Ame Adiabetique." Nadau adds that he never signs or dates his work. The following review is translated from a French newspaper: They are Eighteen draftsmen of today, very different one from the other, but all marked by Surrealism and Art Brut. The exhibition is called "Pointed (Sharp?) Drawings." It was put in place in one week, at the end of the month of August, to replace another exhibition that was scheduled and defaulted at the last moment. [The review opens with a discussion of Nadau's drawing "Paris Big Band." The Delirious City of Nadau - From the entrance, one is seized (struck?) by an enormous drawing, 9 [sic 8] meters by 2 [sic 1.5], by Jean-Pierre Nadau, a sort of plan of a delirious imaginary city, with whirlwinds and spouting places and streets in all directions, vaguely evoking Paris (One will recognize names of avenues, a merry Sacre-Coeur, ditto Hotel de Ville), and thousands, thousands, thousands of teeming minuscule details, abstract forms, fantastic people, masks, improbable buildings, all of this minutely drawn with Indian ink and with a Sergeant-major pen"¦Here and there some strange sentences: Sleep sun on an 'adiablatique' soul", "On agitating an old handkerchief", Virtual and week Dalida carrying a worn fly hammer""¦ Take your time you must have hours to see all. Jean-Pierre Nadau formerly spent six years with Chomo, a fantastic sculptor living on the edge of everything in the heart of Fontainebleau Forest, one of the heroes of "Art Brut". Actually Nadau, at 42 years, finds refuge in his chalet at Haut-Savoie, spending hours drawing figures and writing aphorisms of affectation: The ironic rhinoceros prowls close to the reeds", "Late, the irrational rat draws on the cross-bow", etc. On his WEB site, Nadau writes the following in French: 1963: Birth in Melun in Seine-et-Marne. 1973: I attend part of the turning of "OK! Owner" in a castle close to Paris where I had my practices (film forgotten a little in the line of the "Uncles flingeurs", with almost the same actors). 1982 to 1985: Mislead me in vocation by making theatre, but I laugh well anyway"¦ 1986 to 1990: Work with Chomo with various projects (building, underground, film) and finds in more my true vocation: The drawing of nutcase. 1990: Meet with Gizou in a Festival of "eccentric musics". 1992 to 2003: Continue to draw hundreds of drawings exclusively, with the feather Sergeant-Major and in black and white. I refine my style and sporadically writes in parallel "stories" which prolong and/or are used as irrational binder with graphic work, making immerse a mysterious underground world with the passing of years. My larger drawing until now is 10 meters wide on 2,45 meters in height and smallest 5 cm X 5 cm. I live since 1992 with Gizou, our Réli son (born in 1996) and 3 cats in a country cottage of Morillon (Haute-Savoie). Nonexhaustive list artists that I hate, do not like or simply have absolutely did not influence me: Michel Sardou, Barbara, Mike Brant, Jean Giraudoux, Guy Lux, Jean-Luc Godard, Max Pecas, Claude Lelouch, Arman, Ben, César, Buren, Bernard Buffet, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Michel Leeb, Francis Lalanne, Jean-Michel Earthenware jar, Marguerite Lasted, Plastic Bertrand, George Gershwin, Michel Berger, Amedeo Modigliani, ARIANE Mnouchkine, Michel Legrand, Louis David, Victor Vasarely, Jackson Pollock, Adolf Hitler, Francis Huster, Otto Von Spreckelsen, The Beatles, George Lucas, Nicole Garcia, Dany Shining, John Wayne, Fred Astaire, Alphonse Daudet, David Bowie, Jean Ferrat, Céline Dion, Yves Klein, Vangélis, Lio, Rudolf Nouréev, Robert Combas, François Truffaut, Ossip Zadkine, Michael Jackson, Daniel Guichard, Pierre Emmanuel, Bob Marley. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.