 Bazaine illustrated Raymond Queneau's monograph "André Frénaud" for Le Divan Editeur, 1960 (150 ex.with an original lithograph, thirty examples "hors series" with an added lithograph).Bazaine died at the age of 96 at the end of a day's work on a series of collages, a notable example (1995) of which is printed in "Jean Bazaine, coleurs et mots" (1997) bearing the title "L'étape dans la clairière" after a cycle of poems by Frénaud (1966).