Dubuffet, Jean. LE MIRIVIS DES NATURGIES. Collège de 'Pataphysique, n. p., 1963.

Price: US$1100.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 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. 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. An extensive collection of almost 200 letters from Dubuffet to Voulet recently come to auction (Aguttes, 2022) testifies to the importance of their relationship. A close and warm association. 7.75'' x 6.25''. Original stiff pictorial black-and-white wrappers. [46] pages. 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." Touches of rubbing, toning. Faint crease to spine. Else bright, clean, and sharp overall.

Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.