Paris: APR, [1946]

Prinner’s book is a cry of outrage against the abuses suffered by the women who were disgraced by having their heads shaved. Written in the coarsest language of the streets, it is a prose poem about shame. She also created the eight engravings which show so graphically the women’s shame and degradation. See also displayed on the wall to your left ‘Les Tondus inconnus’, the returning prisoners who also had shaved heads. Anton Prinner, who was born Anna Prinner in Budapest, came to live in France in 1928, taking the name of Anton. She was a painter, illustrator and sculptor and a friend of Picasso, André Breton and Jean Paulhan. It is privately published – she is APR, and this copy is no. 3 of 100 numbered copies.