Jean Dubuffet / LE MIRIVIS DES NATURGIES Signed 1st Edition 1963
Art by Jean Dubuffet, text by Jean Martel. Scarce signed first trade edition of this important artist's book from the founder of Art Brut, inscribed in year of publication to collaborator, Compagnie de l'Art Brut secretary, and co-editor of the Cahiers de l'Art Brut, Jacqueline Voulet. Jean Dubuffet was the most important and outspoken French artist of the postwar era. A man of uncompromising ideas, his art is linked to the concept he himself originated, art brut, which denotes a spontaneous, unconscious, and anti-artistic quality. Collaborative artist's book from the influential founder of Art Brut featuring Dubuffet's crude but dynamic images illustrating Martel's pataphysical verse.
Born in 1941, Jacqueline Voulet was a journalist and writer who in the early'60s worked closely with Dubuffet at Art Brut. By the 1970s she became more involved in avant garde theatre was in a long-term collaboration with French writer Remo Forlani, producing several books and one movie together. A close and warm association.
7.75'' x 6.25''. Original stiff pictorial black-and-white wrappers. One of 1200 unnumbered copies, after a deluxe edition of 159. Inscribed by Dubuffet on the first page: amical souvenir de / Jean Dubuffet / a Jacqueline Voulet / Juin 63. Else bright, clean, and sharp overall.Type Punch Matrix is a rare book firm founded by Rebecca Romney and Brian Cassidy. Between them, they bring over 30 years of experience in the antiquarian book trade. TPM sells a mixture of beloved classics and innovative texts from throughout print history, for collectors and institutions alike. Handpress and modern books, archives and manuscripts, letterpress and ephemera: TPM aims to make collecting both more accessible and more diverse, and believes in the mindful acquisition, preservation, and celebration of the materials of our literary cultures. Proud member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American (ABAA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), and the International Online Booksellers Association (IOBA).
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