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Tarot de la Rea      1982 Alain Bocher      France                                                   Art Medium: Pen drawings coloured with water based inks. Description: The stylised figures each have mask forms as faces. The title, Rea, has a number of meanings for Alain Bocher. Thus it is a secret, hidden thing, buried in the depths of the earth. It is also Rhea, the earth-mother, the one that permits the spiritual birth of initiation. Rea is also a pulley to pull a bucket out of the well. So, to Bocher, the Tarot de la Rea is the game of pictures intended to pull truth and unconscious things, out of the deepest part of ourselves. The edges of cards have applied gold leaf. Supplied in beautiful black leather style box.